Job 11:1
New International Version
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

New Living Translation
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied to Job:

English Standard Version
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

Berean Standard Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

King James Bible
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

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

New American Standard Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite responded,

NASB 1995
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

NASB 1977
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

Amplified Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

Christian Standard Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Tsuphar the Namthite answered and said:

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Then Sophar the Minaean answered and said,

Contemporary English Version
Zophar from Naamah said:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then Zophar from Naama replied [to Job],

International Standard Version
Zophar from Naamath had this to say:

JPS Tanakh 1917
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said:

Literal Standard Version
And Zophar the Naamathite answers and says:

Majority Standard Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

New American Bible
And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

NET Bible
Then Zophar the Naamathite spoke up and said:

New Revised Standard Version
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

New Heart English Bible
Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

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

World English Bible
Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

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

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Context
Zophar Rebukes Job
1Then Zophar the Naamathite replied: 2“Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?…

Cross References
Job 2:11
Now 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 10:22
to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness."

Job 11:2
"Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?


Treasury of Scripture

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

Zophar.

Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

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

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XI.

(1) Zophar, the third of Job's friends, has a clearly defined character, distinct from that of the others; he is the ordinary and common-place moral man, who expresses the thoughts and instincts of the many. Eliphaz was the poet and spiritual man, who sees visions and dreams; Bildad was the man who rested on authority and appealed to tradition; Zophar is the man of worldly wisdom and common sense. In some respects he is the most offensive of the three. He is astonished that Job has not been silenced by the replies of the other two, and thinks he can do no less than help to silence him. Thus he at once begins with "a multitude of words," and "full of talk," and "lies," and "mockery." Zophar stands on a lower level, and drags Job down to it. He refracts his protestations of innocence against himself, and charges him with iniquity in making them. His longing also to come into judgment with God (Job 9:32) he turns back upon himself, being confident that it could not fail to convict him were he to do so.

Verses 1-20. - Zophar, the Naamathite, the third of Job's comforters (Job 2:11), and probably the youngest of them, now at last takes the word, and delivers an angry and violent speech. He begins by accusing Job of having spoken at undue length, and at the same time, boastfully and mockingly (vers. 2-4). He then expresses a wish that God would take Job at his word, and really answer him, since he is sure that the result would be to show that Job had been punished much less than he. deserved to be (vers. 5, 6). Job's complaints against the justice of God's dealings he meets by an assertion of God's unsearchableness and perfect wisdom, which he contrasts with the folly of man (ver. 7-12). Finally, he suggests that a stricken man, being guilty, should humble himself, put away his iniquity, and turn to God, in which ease he may expect a restoration to favour. Otherwise, he has only to look for wretchedness, failure, and despair (vers. 18-20). Verse 1. - Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said (see the comment on Job 2:11).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then Zophar
צֹפַ֥ר (ṣō·p̄ar)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 6691: Zophar -- one of Job's friends

the Naamathite
הַֽנַּעֲמָתִ֗י (han·na·‘ă·mā·ṯî)
Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5284: Naamathite -- inhabitant of Naamah

replied:
וַ֭יַּעַן (way·ya·‘an)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6030: To answer, respond


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