Job 20:1
Verse 1 of 29. The 20th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.
1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
4Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
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Job 20:1 in the World English Bible
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Matthew Henry on Job 20:1
Here, I. Zophar begins very passionately, and seems to be in a great heat at what Job had said. Being resolved to condemn Job for a bad man, he was much displeased that he talked so like a good man, and, as it should seem, broke in upon him, and began abruptly (v. 2): Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer.
Read Matthew Henry on Job 20:1–9: Second Address of Zophar; Destruction of the Wicked. (b. c. 1520.)
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