Job 20 Footnotes

20:1-29 Although Zophar’s second speech reflects many biblical truths concerning the wicked, it does not guarantee that his words were given in true biblical spirit. Zophar painted pictures of the certain failure and disastrous end of the wicked but left Job to make the application to himself. Words have the power to wound or heal (Pr 11:9,11; 15:4) and need to be used in a positive manner (Pr 15:23). Believers are to be ready to give a defense of their faith, but their apologetic needs to be spoken with all due propriety and truth, bathed in love (Eph 4:15; Col 4:6; 1Pt 3:15).