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Zophar Answers

20 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

“My ·troubled thoughts [distress; worries] cause me to ·answer [respond],
    because ·I am very upset [L of the agitation within me].
You ·correct [instruct] me and I am ·insulted [shamed],
    but ·I understand how to answer you [or a spirit beyond my understanding gives me an answer].

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Zophar Says the Rejoicing of the Wicked Is Short

20 Then Zophar the Naamathite responded,

“Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me [a]respond,
Even because of my [b]inward agitation.
I listened to (A)the reprimand which insults me,
And the spirit of my understanding makes me answer.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 20:2 Lit return
  2. Job 20:2 Lit haste within me