Zophar, after a short preface, asserts, that the prosperity of the wicked is short, and his ruin sure, Job 20:1. He describes his misery in many particulars, Job 20:10.
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Zophar's Second Speech
Zophar breaks in upon the close of Job's speech with a fiery haste
and passionateness not quite easy to account for. No doubt Job had
spoken of his friends as persecuting him a...
TODAY'S ENGLISH VERSION
_Zophar_
1-2 Job, you upset me. Now I-'m impatient to answer.
3 What you have said is an insult,
but I know how to reply to you.
4 Surely you know that from ancient times,...
INTRODUCTION TO JOB 20
Zophar and his friends, not satisfied with Job's confession of faith,
he in his turn replies, and in his preface gives his reasons why he
made any answer at all, and was so qui...