Zophar the Naamathite is the third of Job’s friends, and the only one who is not described by anything except his home. The three came together “to mourn with him and to comfort him.” Later, the LORD tells Eliphaz that his anger is kindled against him and his two friends, because they had not spoken of him rightly as Job had. They were told to bring a sacrifice, and Job would pray for them. Zophar went and did what was commanded, and the LORD accepted Job. It is a sobering example of well-meant comfort that missed the mark.
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Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.
Matthew George Easton, 1897
Chirping, one of Job’s friends who came to condole with him in his distress (Job 2:11. The LXX. render here “king of the Mineans” = Ma’in, Maonites, Judg. 10:12, in Southern Arabia). He is called a Naamathite, or an inhabitant of some unknown place called Naamah.
William Smith, 1884
(sparrow), one of the three friends of Job. (Job 2:11; 11:1; 20:1; 42:9)