Job 20:1

The NET Bible®

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

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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:

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

¹ Then Zophar the Naamathite answered: ² "This is why my troubled thoughts bring me back— because of my feelings within me. ³ When I hear a reproof that dishonors me, then my understanding prompts me to answer. ⁴ "Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth, ⁵ that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment. ⁶ Even though his stature reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds, ⁷ he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say, ‘Where is he?' ⁸ Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight. ⁹ People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

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 borders of Canaan extended from Sidon all the way to Gerar as far as Gaza, and all the way to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Genesis 13:1
So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.

Genesis 14:7
Then they attacked En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh) again, and they conquered all the territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazazon Tamar.

Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.

Genesis 16:7
The Lord 's angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert—the spring that is along the road to Shur.

Genesis 16:14
That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. (It is located between Kadesh and Bered.)

Genesis 18:1
The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

Genesis 20:13
When God made me wander from my father's house, I told her, ‘This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me: Every place we go, say about me, "He is my brother."'"

Genesis 20:14
So Abimelech gave sheep, cattle, and male and female servants to Abraham. He also gave his wife Sarah back to him.

Genesis 24:62
Now Isaac came from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.

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