Bible Trivia Question

Who is the first of Job's friends to respond to his opening lament?


Elihu the Buzite
Zophar the Naamathite
Eliphaz the Temanite
Bildad the Shuhite

Eliphaz the Temanite

Job 4:1 - Eliphaz the Temanite is the first of Job's friends to speak, beginning a series of dialogues where he attempts to explain Job's suffering.

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| The day of his birth | The day he was married | The day he lost his wealth | The day his children were born |

Job expresses a longing for what state of existence in his lament?
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Job compares his friends' help to what unreliable natural phenomenon?
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