1 And Zophar the Naamathite answers and says: 2 “Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified? 3 Your boastings make men keep silent, || You scorn, and none is causing blushing! 4 And you say, My discourse [is] pure, || And I have been clean in Your eyes. 5 And yet, O that God had spoken! And opens His lips with you. 6 And declares to you secrets of wisdom, for counsel has foldings. And know that God forgets of your iniquity for you. 7 Do you find out God by searching? To perfection find out the Mighty One? 8 Heights of the heavens—what [can] you do? Deeper than Sheol—what [can] you know? 9 Its measure [is] longer than earth, and broader than the sea. 10 If He passes on, and shuts up, and assembles, || Who then reverses it? 11 For He has known men of vanity, || And He sees iniquity, || And one does not consider [it]! 12 And empty man is bold, || And man is born [as] the colt of a wild donkey. 13 If you have prepared your heart, || And have spread out your hands to Him, 14 If iniquity [is] in your hand, put it far off, || And do not let perverseness dwell in your tents. 15 For then you lift up your face from blemish, || And you have been firm, and do not fear. 16 For you forget misery, || As waters passed away you remember. 17 And age rises above the noon, || You fly—you are as the morning. 18 And you have trusted because there is hope, || And searched—in confidence you lie down, 19 And you have rested, || And none is causing trembling, || And many have begged [at] your face; 20 And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, || And refuge has perished from them, || And their hope [is] a breathing out of soul!”
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Zophar
Zophar the Naamathite, one of Job's three friends, who answered Job in the dialogues and did what the LORD told him after the LORD's rebuke.
Cited in the guide: Job 2:11; Job 11:1; Job 20:1
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- 1 Job 2:11; Job 20:1
- 2 James 1:19; Proverbs 10:19; Job 18:2; Job 8:2; Acts 17:18
- 3 Job 17:2; Jude 18; Job 21:3; Psalm 83:16; Job 15:2–3
- 4 Job 10:7; Job 6:10; 1 Peter 3:15; Job 34:5–6; Job 35:2
- 5 Job 38:1–2; Job 31:35; Job 23:3–7; Job 40:1–5; Job 42:7
- 6 Ezra 9:13; Lamentations 3:22; Daniel 2:28; Ephesians 3:5; Matthew 13:35
- 7 Romans 11:33; Psalm 145:3; Ecclesiastes 3:11; Isaiah 40:28; Job 5:9
- 8 Job 22:12; Isaiah 55:9; Psalm 139:6–8; Psalm 148:13; Job 26:6
- 9 Psalm 139:9–10; Job 28:24–25; Psalm 65:5–8
- 10 Job 9:12–13; Job 12:14; Revelation 3:7; Isaiah 41:27; Daniel 4:35
- 11 Psalm 10:14; Hebrews 4:13; Revelation 2:23; John 2:24–25; Psalm 10:11
- 12 Job 39:5–8; James 2:20; Psalm 73:22; Jeremiah 2:24; James 3:13–17
- 13 Psalm 143:6; Psalm 88:9; Psalm 78:8; 1 Samuel 7:3; Job 8:5–6
- 14 Job 22:23; James 4:8; Job 4:7; Psalm 101:2; Isaiah 1:15
- 15 Job 22:26; 1 John 3:19–22; 1 John 2:28; 1 Timothy 2:8; Psalm 27:1
- 16 Isaiah 65:16; Ecclesiastes 5:20; Isaiah 54:9; John 16:21; Isaiah 54:4
- 17 Isaiah 58:8–10; Psalm 37:6; Proverbs 4:18; Zechariah 14:6–7; Hosea 6:3
- 18 Proverbs 3:24–26; Psalm 3:5; Psalm 43:5; Psalm 4:8; Leviticus 26:5–6
- 19 Isaiah 60:14; Isaiah 45:14; Psalm 45:12; Leviticus 26:6; Revelation 3:9
- 20 Deuteronomy 28:65; Job 31:16; Job 17:5; Job 8:13–14; Luke 16:23–26
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