Zophar

Role: king; friend of Job · First appears: The Four Friends

Zophar was related to Job and to the other friends, and was a cousin of Bildad and Elihu. The friends lived in different places, hundreds of miles apart.

When Job’s misfortune became known, Zophar and the other friends hastened to assist him. Job refused the three kings’ physicians, saying, “My healing and my restoration come from God, the Creator of all physicians.” After Job offered a sacrifice for his friends, God accepted it and pardoned them.

Relationship record

Life events

• Job’s friends learned of his misfortune and hastened to assist him.(The Four Friends)
  • With: Eliphaz Bildad Elihu Job
  • “Thus the friends of Job learnt simultaneously of his misfortune, and they hastened to his assistance.”
• Job refused treatment by the three kings’ physicians, trusting God for healing and restoration.(The Four Friends)
  • With: Job
  • “But Job rejected the offer, saying, ‘My healing and my restoration come from God, the Creator of all physicians.’”
• Job offered a sacrifice for his friends, and God accepted it and pardoned them.(Job Restored)
  • With: Job Eliphaz Bildad God
  • “The sacrifice offered by Job in behalf of his friends was accepted graciously by God”

The Four Friends

• with Job (The text establishes a kinship tie without specifying its type.) “The four friends were related to one another, and each one was related to Job.”
• with Eliphaz (The text establishes a kinship tie without specifying its type.) “The four friends were related to one another, and each one was related to Job.”
• cousins with Bildad “Bildad, Zophar, and Elihu were cousins, their fathers, Shuah, Naamat, and Barachel, were the sons of Buz, who was a brother of Job and a nephew of Abraham.”
• cousins with Elihu “Bildad, Zophar, and Elihu were cousins, their fathers, Shuah, Naamat, and Barachel, were the sons of Buz, who was a brother of Job and a nephew of Abraham.”
• friends with Job “The friends of Job lived in different places, at intervals of three hundred miles one from the other.”
• friends with Eliphaz “The four friends were related to one another, and each one was related to Job.”
• friends with Bildad “The four friends were related to one another, and each one was related to Job.”
• friends with Elihu “The four friends were related to one another, and each one was related to Job.”

Job Restored

• friends with Job “With his three friends he returned to the city, and the inhabitants made a festival in his honor and unto the glory of God.”
• friends with Eliphaz “Thou and thy friends Bildad and Zophar have committed a sin, for ye did not speak the truth concerning my servant Job.”
• friends with Bildad “Thou and thy friends Bildad and Zophar have committed a sin, for ye did not speak the truth concerning my servant Job.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume II. Made with Rho MD.