Job 20:1

New Life Version

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

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 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 "My troubled thoughts make me answer, because I have no rest inside. ³ I heard the strong words that take away my honor. The spirit of my understanding makes me answer. ⁴ Do you not know from long ago, since man was put on earth, ⁵ that the honor of the sinful is short, and the joy of the sinful lasts only a short time? ⁶ Even if his pride is as high as the heavens and his head touches the clouds, ⁷ he will be gone forever, like his own waste. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?' ⁸ He will fly away like a dream, and not be found. He will be driven away like a dream of the night. ⁹ The eye which saw him will see him no more. His place will no longer see him.

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
So the land of the Canaanite was from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.

Genesis 13:1
So Abram left Egypt and went to the Negev, with his wife and all that belonged to him. And Lot went with him.

Genesis 14:7
Then they turned around and came to Enmishpat (that is, Kadesh). There they won a war against all the country of the Amalekites and the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.

Genesis 16:1
Now Abram's wife Sarai had not given birth to any children. She had a woman servant from Egypt whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 16:7
The angel of the Lord found Hagar by a well of water in the desert on the way to Shur.

Genesis 16:14
So the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 18:1
The Lord showed Himself to Abraham by the oak trees of Mamre, as he sat at the tent door in the heat of the day.

Genesis 20:13
When God made me go from my father's house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is the kindness you must show me. Everywhere we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"

Genesis 20:14
Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and cattle, and men and women servants. And he returned his wife Sarah to him.

Genesis 24:62
Now Isaac had come from Beerlahairoi, and 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