"Zophar was angered because Job was so talkative" _(Zuck p. 53)._ "Like. leopard springing from ambush upon its unsuspecting prey, Zophar enters the debate clawing and scratching for Job's jugular vein. As the youngest of the three friends, he has been biding his time and building his rage" _(McKenn... [ Continue Reading ]
Zophar does not merely consider Job's speech to be empty and unnecessary, but that his speeches are boasting and scoffing. Job is far more than merely. windbag, he is. blasphemer. Job has denied that the righteous are always rewarded and the wicked are always punished in this life and to Zophar this... [ Continue Reading ]
He is also upset because Job has been trying to justify himself and proclaim his innocence.... [ Continue Reading ]
"I WOULD THAT GOD WOULD SPEAK": Zophar wishes that God would actually intervene and answer Job (Job 9:3). "Then God would speak against Job, not for him" _(Zuck p. 53). _ __... [ Continue Reading ]
"SOUND WISDOM HAS TWO SIDES": Literally this means "double folded over", i.e. such wisdom is difficult to penetrate and is beyond Job. If God would speak to Job, He would really show Job what true wisdom is. JOB 11:6 "KNOW THEN THAT GOD FORGETS. PART OF YOUR INIQUITY": :"You would see, Job, how stup... [ Continue Reading ]
This is. wonderful description of God's wisdom and it may have been intended as. rebuke to Job's claim of wisdom (Job 9:4). "Zophar pointed out that the Lord's mysterious, plummetless, unknowable wisdom exceeds the height of the heavens, the depths of the grave, the length of the earth, and the brea... [ Continue Reading ]
He agrees with Job that no one can restrain God (Job 9:12). __... [ Continue Reading ]
"WITHOUT INVESTIGATING": Job had argued that God brings suffering upon the innocent as well as the guilty (Job 9:22), and Zophar seems to have interpreted this argument as meaning that God does not know the difference between the righteous and the wicked. "God does not need to investigate man's cond... [ Continue Reading ]
"AN IDIOT WILL BECOME INTELLIGENT WHEN THE FOAL OF. WILD DONKEY IS BORN. MAN": Zophar is here calling Job. nitwit, the word "idiot" means. man who is hollowed out, i.e., empty in the head. "The chances of Job's becoming wise were no greater than the possibility of. wild donkey, considered the most s... [ Continue Reading ]
As Job's other friends had stressed (Job 5:8f; Job 8:5-7; 20-22), Zophar also encourages Job to repent. According to Zophar three steps were needed to be restored, "direct your heart aright", "spread out your hand to Him" (prayer), and the renunciation of sin. "If God would meet those conditions the... [ Continue Reading ]
However if Job refused to repent then any hope he had would die with him. "These first speeches of Job's compatriots offered no comfort. Though their generalities about God's goodness, justice, and wisdom were true, their cruel charge that Job repent of some hidden sin missed the mark. They failed t... [ Continue Reading ]