Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
Parallel translations
- WEB Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
- KJV Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
- NKJV Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:
- NASB Then Zophar the Naamathite responded,
- NLT Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
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Quick answer
This introduces Zophar's second and final speech in response to Job. He answers with renewed insistence on the doom of the wicked.
Overview
The narrator marks Zophar the Naamathite rising to reply, agitated by Job's words. His speech will be a vivid, unrelenting portrait of the swift downfall of the wicked, meant to indict Job. As with the other friends, his rigid retribution theology, while containing truths, is misapplied to a righteous sufferer, as God will later make clear.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Job 2:11Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.
- Job 11:1Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
- Job 42:9So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s request.
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