# Eliphaz the Temanite — Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance character guide

> Eliphaz the Temanite in Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance by Mark Rutherford.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Eliphaz, your

**First appearance:** 0012-notes-on-the-book-of-job

## Who they are

One of Job's friends, appearing in the biblical commentary.

## In the story

### [Notes on the Book of Job](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mark_rutherford_s_deliverance_se/chapters/notes-on-the-book-of-job)

Eliphaz leads the friends in condemning Job, arguing that Job's talk does no good and that his case has been anticipated by tradition; he represents unyielding orthodoxy.

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