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Zophar Speaks: Wickedness Receives Just Retribution

20 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

“Listen! My thoughts urge me to answer
    because of the agitation within me.
I hear censure that insults me,
    and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.(A)

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Zophar’s Second Speech

20 Then[a] Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

“Therefore my disquieting thoughts bring me back
for the sake of[b] my inward excitement.[c]
I hear discipline that insults me,
and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 20:1 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 20:2 Literally “and in because of”
  3. Job 20:2 Or “my inward haste”