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Literal Standard Version

Job 20:1

And Zophar the Naamathite answers and says:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - Zophar;   The Topic Concordance - Happiness/joy;   Hypocrisy;   Oppression;   Perishing;   Victory/overcoming;   Wickedness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Zophar;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   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

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,
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

1And Zophar the Naamathite answers and says:2"Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, || And because of my sensations in me. 3I hear the discipline of my shame, || And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer: 4Have you known this from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth? 5That the singing of the wicked [is] short, || And the joy of the profane for a moment, 6Though his excellence goes up to the heavens, || He strikes his head against a cloud— 7He perishes as his own dung forever, || His beholders say, Where [is] he? 8He flees as a dream, and they do not find him, || And he is driven away as a vision of the night, 9The eye has not seen him, and does not add. And his place does not behold him again.

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
And the border of the Canaanite is from Sidon, [in] your coming toward Gerar, to Gaza; [in] your coming toward Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, to Lasha.
Genesis 13:1
And Abram goes up from Egypt (he and his wife, and all that he has, and Lot with him) toward the south;
Genesis 14:7
and they turn back and come to En-Mishpat, which [is] Kadesh, and strike the whole field of the Amalekite, and also the Amorite who is dwelling in Hazezon-Tamar.
Genesis 16:1
And Sarai, Abram's wife, has not borne to him, and she has a handmaid, an Egyptian, and her name [is] Hagar;
Genesis 16:7
And the Messenger of YHWH finds her by the fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way [to] Shur,
Genesis 16:14
Therefore has one called the well, "The well of the Living One, my beholder"; behold, between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis 18:1
And YHWH appears to him among the oaks of Mamre, and he is sitting at the opening of the tent, about the heat of the day;
Genesis 20:13
and it comes to pass, when God has caused me to wander from my father's house, that I say to her, This [is] your kindness which you do with me: at every place to where we come, say of me, He [is] my brother."
Genesis 20:14
And Abimelech takes sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids, and gives to Abraham, and sends back his wife Sarah to him;
Genesis 24:62
And Isaac has come in from the entrance of the Well of the Living One, my Beholder; and he is dwelling in the land of 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


 
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