Job 11:1

1 Next Tzofar the Na'amati spoke up:

Job 11:1 Meaning and Commentary

Job 11:1

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite
The third of Job's friends, that came to visit him, (See Gill on Job 2:11); and who perhaps might be the youngest, since his turn was to speak last; and he appears to have less modesty and prudence, and more fire and heat in him; than his other friends; though he might be the more irritated by observing, that their arguments were baffled by Job, and had no manner of effect on him, to cause him to recede from his first sentiments and conduct:

and said;
as follows.

Job 11:1 In-Context

1 Next Tzofar the Na'amati spoke up:
2 "Shouldn't this torrent of words be answered? Does talking a lot make a person right?
3 Is your babble supposed to put others to silence? When you mock, is no one to make you ashamed?
4 "You claim that your teaching is pure; you tell [God], 'I am clean in your sight.'
5 I wish that God would speak, would open his mouth to answer you,
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