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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 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