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the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Christian Standard Bible ®

Job 11:1

Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Uncharitableness;   Scofield Reference Index - Zophar;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Zophar;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Naamathite;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Zophar;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Naamathite;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Naamathite ;   Zophar ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Na'amathite,;   Zo'phar;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Naamathite;  

Parallel Translations

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 spoke up and said:
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 sayde,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
Berean Standard Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
Contemporary English Version
Zophar's First Speech Zophar from Naamah said:
Complete Jewish Bible
Next Tzofar the Na‘amati spoke up:
Darby Translation
And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Zophar from Naamah answered Job and said,
George Lamsa Translation
THEN answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
Good News Translation
Will no one answer all this nonsense? Does talking so much put you in the right? <
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,
Bible in Basic English
Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said:
King James Version (1611)
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then aunswered Sophar the Naamathite, and sayde;
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 to Job:
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

1Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:2Should this abundance of words go unansweredand such a talker be acquitted? 3Should your babbling put others to silence,so that you can keep on ridiculingwith no one to humiliate you? 4You have said, “My teaching is sound,and I am pure in your sight.” 5But if only God would speakand open his lips against you! 6He would show you the secrets of wisdom,for true wisdom has two sides.Know then that God has chosen to overlook some of your iniquity.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Zophar: Job 2:11, Job 20:1

Reciprocal: Job 42:7 - Eliphaz

Cross-References

Isaiah 19:18
On that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear loyalty to the Lord of Armies. One of the cities will be called the City of the Sun.
Zephaniah 3:9
For I will then restorepure speech to the peoplesso that all of them may callon the name of the Lordand serve him with a single purpose.
Acts 2:6
When this sound occurred, a crowd came together and was confused because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite,.... The third of Job's friends, that came to visit him, :-; and who perhaps might be the youngest, since his turn was to speak last; and he appears to have less modesty and prudence, and more fire and heat in him; than his other friends; though he might be the more irritated by observing, that their arguments were baffled by Job, and had no manner of effect on him, to cause him to recede from his first sentiments and conduct:

and said; as follows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XI

Zophar answers Job, and reproves him severely for his attempts

to justify himself; charges him with secret iniquity, and

contends that God inflicts less punishment on him than his

iniquities deserve, 1-6.

Shows the knowledge and perfections of God to be unsearchable,

and that none can resist his power, 7-11.

Warns him against vanity of mind, and exhorts him to repentance

on the ground that his acceptance with God is still a possible

case, and that his latter days may yet become happy and

prosperous, 12-20.

NOTES ON CHAP. XI

Verse Job 11:1. Zophar the Naamathite — Of this man and his friends, see Job 2:11. He is the most inveterate of Job's accusers, and generally speaks without feeling or pity. In sour godliness he excelled all the rest. This chapter and the twentieth comprehends all that he said. He was too crooked to speak much in measured verse.


 
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