Job 20

Zophar’s second response to Job.
V. 3 You rebuked me and I have to respond.

• I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

V. 5 Zophar quotes a proverb:

• I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
• Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. (Psalms 37:35-36)

V. 6 A similar passage is used to describe the fall of Lucifer.

• How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
• For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
• I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
• Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. (Isaiah 14:12-15)
• V. 9 Zophar repeats something that job already said.

• The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

V. 11-13 Zophar tells Job that he is full of sin and wickedness.
V. 14-16 but has become like poison within him.
V. 17 As such he will not see any good thing.
V. 18-20 Everything he has stolen he will restore and because of his oppression of the poor he will not be able to enjoy anything that he stole.
V. 21 He will not have anything to give so he won’t have any friends.

• There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. (Ecclesiastes 5:13-14)

V. 22 Whatever you have will be taken away.
V. 23 Even while you are eating God will rain his fury on you.
V. 24 You can flee from the sword and be shot by an arrow.
V. 25 You will see the shaft of the arrow sticking out of your belly.
V. 26-27 Everything is going to go wrong that can go wrong.
V. 28 All your wealth will be lost.
V. 29 Isn’t this what we see, Job?