Job 20:1

New King James Version

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered 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,

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 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 and said: ² "Therefore my anxious thoughts make me answer, Because of the turmoil within me. ³ I have heard the rebuke that reproaches me, And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer. ⁴ "Do you not know this of old, Since man was placed on earth, ⁵ That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment? ⁶ Though his haughtiness mounts up to the heavens, And his head reaches to the clouds, ⁷ Yet he will perish forever like his own refuse; Those who have seen him will say, "Where is he?' ⁸ He will fly away like a dream, and not be found; Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night. ⁹ The eye that saw him will see him no more, Nor will his place behold him anymore.

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 Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Genesis 13:1
Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the South. [fn]

Genesis 14:7
Then they turned back and came to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and attacked all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who dwelt in Hazezon Tamar.

Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 16:7
Now the Angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.

Genesis 16:14
Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; [fn] observe, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 18:1
Then the Lord appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre, [fn] as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.

Genesis 20:13
And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, "This is your kindness that you should do for me: in every place, wherever we go, say of me, "He is my brother.""'

Genesis 20:14
Then Abimelech took sheep, oxen, and male and female servants, and gave them to Abraham; and he restored Sarah his wife to him.

Genesis 24:62
Now Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he dwelt 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