Job 20:1

King James Version

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

English Revised Version
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

Update Bible Version
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

New Century Version
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

New English Translation
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

Webster's Bible Translation
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

World English Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

Amplified Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

English Standard Version
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Sophar Naamathites answeride, and seide,

Berean Standard Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

Contemporary English Version
Zophar's Second Speech Zophar from Naamah said:

American Standard Version
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

Bible in Basic English
Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and 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:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said:

King James Version (1611)
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and saide,

New Life Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

New Revised Standard
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide,

George Lamsa Translation
THEN Zophar, the Naamathite, answered and said,

Good News Translation
Job, you upset me. Now I'm impatient to answer. <

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:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then aunswered Sophar the Naamathite, and saide:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then Sophar the Minaean answered and said,

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

Hebrew Names Version
Then Tzofar the Na`amatite answered,

Lexham English Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

Literal Translation
And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

Young's Literal Translation
And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then answered Sophar the Naamathite, and sayde:

New American Standard Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite responded,

New King James Version
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

Contextual Overview

¹ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, ² Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. ³ I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. ⁴ Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, ⁵ That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? ⁶ Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; ⁷ Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? ⁸ He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. ⁹ The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold 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
And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

Genesis 13:1
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

Genesis 14:7
And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.

Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 16:7
And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

Genesis 16:14
Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 18:1
And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

Genesis 20:13
And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

Genesis 20:14
And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.

Genesis 24:62
And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt in the south country.

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