Job 20:1

Bible in Basic English

Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

Hebrew Names Version
Then Tzofar the Na`amatite answered,

King James Version
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

English Standard Version
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

New Century Version
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

New English Translation
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

Amplified Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

New American Standard Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite responded,

World English Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

Berean Standard Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

Contemporary English Version
Zophar's Second Speech Zophar from Naamah said:

Complete Jewish Bible
Tzofar the Na‘amati replied,

Darby Translation
And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Zophar from Naamah answered:

George Lamsa Translation
THEN Zophar, the Naamathite, answered and said,

Good News Translation
Job, you upset me. Now I'm impatient to answer. <

Lexham English Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

Literal Translation
And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then answered Sophar the Naamathite, and sayde:

American Standard Version
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said:

King James Version (1611)
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and saide,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then aunswered Sophar the Naamathite, and saide:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then Sophar the Minaean answered and said,

English Revised Version
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Sophar Naamathites answeride, and seide,

Update Bible Version
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

New King James Version
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

New Living Translation
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

New Life Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

New Revised Standard
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then responded Zophar the Naamathite, and said: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:

Revised Standard Version
Then Zophar the Na'amathite answered:

Young's Literal Translation
And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

Contextual Overview

¹ Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said, ² For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on. ³ I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom. ⁴ Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth, ⁵ That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute? ⁶ Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds; ⁷ Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he? ⁸ He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night. ⁹ The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Zophar: Job 2:11, Job 11:1, Job 42:9

Reciprocal: Job 15:34 - the congregation

Cross-References

Genesis 10:19
Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.

Genesis 13:1
And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.

Genesis 14:7
Then they came back to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh), making waste all the country of the Amalekites and of the Amorites living in Hazazon-tamar.

Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 16:7
And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

Genesis 16:14
So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 18:1
Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;

Genesis 20:13
And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother.

Genesis 20:14
Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and oxen and men-servants and women-servants, and gave him back his wife Sarah.

Genesis 24:62
Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite,.... Notwithstanding the sad distressed condition Job was in, an account of which is given in the preceding chapter, enough to pierce a heart of stone, notwithstanding his earnest request to his friends to have pity on him, and notwithstanding the noble confession of his faith he had made, which showed him to be a good man, and the excellent advice he gave his friends to cease persecuting him, for their own good, as well as for his peace; yet, regardless of these things, Zophar starts up and makes a reply, and attacks him with as much heat and passion, wrath and anger, as ever, harping upon the same string, and still representing Job as a wicked man and an hypocrite;

and said, as follows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XX

Zophar answers Job, and largely details the wretchedness of

the wicked and the hypocrite; shows that the rejoicing of

such is short and transitory, 1-9.

That he is punished in his family and in his person, 10-14.

That he shall be stripped of his ill-gotten wealth, and shall

be in misery, though in the midst of affluence, 15-23.

He shall at last die a violent death, and his family and

property be finally destroyed, 24-29.

NOTES ON CHAP. XX