Job study section
Job key people
Job, his three friends, Elihu, and the LORD frame the great debate over suffering.
Key figures
Job
The blameless and upright man of Uz whose faith is tested through catastrophic suffering, and who is finally restored
The LORD
The sovereign God who permits Job’s testing and answers him at last out of the whirlwind
Satan
“The accuser,” who charges that Job serves God only for gain and is permitted to test him
Eliphaz
The eldest of Job’s three friends, who appeals to experience and visions to argue Job has sinned
Bildad
The second friend, who appeals to tradition and the wisdom of the ancestors
Zophar
The third and harshest friend, who bluntly insists Job deserves even worse than he has received
Elihu
The younger man who rebukes both Job and his friends and prepares the way for God’s answer
Job’s wife
Who, in her own grief, urges Job to “curse God and die”
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