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Zophar

American  
[zoh-fer] / ˈzoʊ fər /

noun

  1. a friend of Job. Job 2:11.


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MacLeish makes Zophar a broken-down priest, Eliphaz a wreck of a doctor and Bildad a soapbox-orating Communist.

From Time Magazine Archive

And Bildad and Zophar put questions to me to discern whether I was of sound mind or not, and I answered them soberly.

From Old Testament Legends being stories out of some of the less-known apochryphal books of the old testament by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

Zophar says that, even if the wicked have any prosperity, it is short, and the end is suffering.

From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall

In each of the three cycles of discussion with his friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, each argues with Job except that Zophar remains silent in the third cycle.

From The Bible Book by Book A Manual for the Outline Study of the Bible by Books by Josiah Blake Tidwell

In his rejoinder to Zophar, he lays special stress upon the prosperity and success of the wicked who scoff at the laws of God and yet "while away their days in bliss."

From The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur by Emile Joseph Dillon

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