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Contemporary English Version

Job 11:1

Zophar's First Speech Zophar from Naamah said:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Uncharitableness;   Scofield Reference Index - Zophar;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Zophar;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Naamathite;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Zophar;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Naamathite;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Naamathite ;   Zophar ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Na'amathite,;   Zo'phar;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Naamathite;  

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 spoke up and said:
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 sayde,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
Berean Standard Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
Complete Jewish Bible
Next Tzofar the Na‘amati spoke up:
Darby Translation
And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Zophar from Naamah answered Job and said,
George Lamsa Translation
THEN answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
Good News Translation
Will no one answer all this nonsense? Does talking so much put you in the right? <
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 said,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then aunswered Sophar the Naamathite, and sayde;
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 to Job:
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 Zophar's First Speech Zophar from Naamah said: 2 So much foolish talk cannot go unanswered. 3 Your words have silenced others and made them ashamed; now it is only right for you to be put to shame. 4 You claim to be innocent and argue that your beliefs are acceptable to God. 5 But I wish he would speak 6 and let you know that wisdom has many different sides. You would then discover that God has punished you less than you deserve.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Zophar: Job 2:11, Job 20:1

Reciprocal: Job 42:7 - Eliphaz

Cross-References

Isaiah 19:18
The time is coming when Hebrew will be spoken in five Egyptian cities, and their people will become followers of the Lord . One of these cities will be called City of the Sun.
Zephaniah 3:9
I will purify each language and make those languages acceptable for praising me. Then, with hearts united, everyone will serve only me, the Lord .
Acts 2:6
And when they heard this noise, a crowd gathered. But they were surprised, because they were hearing everything in their own languages.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite,.... The third of Job's friends, that came to visit him, :-; and who perhaps might be the youngest, since his turn was to speak last; and he appears to have less modesty and prudence, and more fire and heat in him; than his other friends; though he might be the more irritated by observing, that their arguments were baffled by Job, and had no manner of effect on him, to cause him to recede from his first sentiments and conduct:

and said; as follows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XI

Zophar answers Job, and reproves him severely for his attempts

to justify himself; charges him with secret iniquity, and

contends that God inflicts less punishment on him than his

iniquities deserve, 1-6.

Shows the knowledge and perfections of God to be unsearchable,

and that none can resist his power, 7-11.

Warns him against vanity of mind, and exhorts him to repentance

on the ground that his acceptance with God is still a possible

case, and that his latter days may yet become happy and

prosperous, 12-20.

NOTES ON CHAP. XI

Verse Job 11:1. Zophar the Naamathite — Of this man and his friends, see Job 2:11. He is the most inveterate of Job's accusers, and generally speaks without feeling or pity. In sour godliness he excelled all the rest. This chapter and the twentieth comprehends all that he said. He was too crooked to speak much in measured verse.


 
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