Job 20:1

Good News Translation

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

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,

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 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

¹Job, you upset me. Now I'm impatient to answer. <³ What you have said is an insult, but I know how to reply to you. ⁴ Surely you know that from ancient times, when we humans were first placed on earth, ⁵ no wicked people have been happy for long. ⁶ They may grow great, towering to the sky, so great that their heads reach the clouds, ⁷ but they will be blown away like dust. Those who used to know them will wonder where they have gone. ⁸ They will vanish like a dream, like a vision at night, and never be seen again. ⁹ The wicked will disappear from the place where they used to live;

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
until the Canaanite borders reached from Sidon southward to Gerar near Gaza, and eastward to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim near Lasha.

Genesis 13:1
Abram went north out of Egypt to the southern part of Canaan with his wife and everything he owned, and Lot went with him.

Genesis 14:7
Then they turned around and came back to Kadesh (then known as Enmishpat). They conquered all the land of the Amalekites and defeated the Amorites who lived in Hazazon Tamar.

Genesis 16:1
Abram's wife Sarai had not borne him any children. But she had an Egyptian slave woman named Hagar,

Genesis 16:7
The angel of the Lord met Hagar at a spring in the desert on the road to Shur

Genesis 16:14
That is why people call the well between Kadesh and Bered "The Well of the Living One Who Sees Me."

Genesis 18:1
The Lord appeared to Abraham at the sacred trees of Mamre. As Abraham was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the hottest part of the day,

Genesis 20:13
So when God sent me from my father's house into foreign lands, I said to her, ‘You can show how loyal you are to me by telling everyone that I am your brother.'"

Genesis 20:14
Then Abimelech gave Sarah back to Abraham, and at the same time he gave him sheep, cattle, and slaves.

Genesis 24:62
Isaac had come into the wilderness of "The Well of the Living One Who Sees Me" and was staying in the southern part of Canaan.

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