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Job Chapter 20 verse 1 Holy Bible

ASV Job 20:1

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
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BBE Job 20:1

Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,
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DARBY Job 20:1

And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
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KJV Job 20:1

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
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WBT Job 20:1

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
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WEB Job 20:1

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
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YLT Job 20:1

And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 1-29. - Zophar's second speech is even more harsh than his first (ch. 11.). He adds coarseness and rudeness to his former vehement hostility (vers. 7, 15). His whole discourse is a covert denunciation of Job as a wicked man and a hypocrite (vers. 5, 12, 19, 29), deservedly punished by God for a life of crime. He ends by prophesying Job's violent death, the destruction of his house, and the rising up of heaven and earth in witness against him (vers. 24-28). Verses 1, 2. - Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer. Zophar "has heard the check of his reproach" (ver. 3), i.e. the reproach contained in the last words of Job in the preceding chapter. Therefore his thoughts rise up within him, and com-psi him to make a reply. He cannot allow Job to shift the onus of guilt and the menace of punishment on his friends, when it is he, Job, that is the guilty person, over whom the judgments of God impend. And for this I make haste; rather, and because of my haste that is within me (see the Revised Version); i.e. "because I am of a hasty and impetuous temperament."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersXX.(1) Then answered Zophar.--Zophar retorts with yet greater vehemence than before, and assumes a more ornate and elaborate style, still reiterating the former burden of the speedy doom of the wicked man.