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depicting Job and his friends.  Eliphaz is called a Temanite
(Job 4:1). He appears in the Book of Job in the Hebrew Bible.
Eliphaz appears mild and modest; in his first reply to Job's
complaints, he argues that those who are truly good are never
entirely forsaken by Providence, but that punishment may justly
be inflicted for secret sins. He denies that any man is innocent
and censures Job for asserting his freedom from guilt. Eliphaz
exhorts Job to confess any concealed iniquities to alleviate his
punishment. His arguments are well supported but God declares at
the end of the book that Eliphaz believed an erroneous view of
divine dispensations. Job offers a sacrifice to God for
Eliphaz's error.    His primary belief was that the righteous do
not perish; the wicked alone suffer, and in measure as they have
sinned (Job iv. 7-9). This argument is, in part, rooted in what
he believes to