“ Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. ”
Therefore - לכן lākên , “certainly, truly.” In view of what has been just said. Or perhaps the word means merely certainly, truly. Do my thoughts cause me to answer - This is variously r...
Job 20. Second Speech of Zophar. Zophar helps the return to the wider problem by appearing once more with a strong doctrine as to the shortness of the prosperity of the wicked. His theme is, Sin br...
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. Therefore do my thoughts - It has already been observed that Zophar was the most inveterate of all Job's enemies, for we real...
Therefore do my thoughts— Verily the emotions of my thoughts cause me to reply, even because there is some sensibility in me. This translation is agreeable to the Hebrew, and throws much light on...
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. Therefore - the more excited I feel by Job's speech, the more, for that very reason, shall my reply be supplied by my c...
Zophar's Second Speech Zophar ignores Job's conviction that God will one day establish his innocence, and proceeds to describe the short triumph of the wicked and his certain downfall and punishme...
Therefore. — That is, because of the eagerness that is in him. His spirit is stirred in him, and impels him to reply.
XVII. IGNORANT CRITICISM OF LIFE Job 20:1-29 ZOPHAR SPEAKS THE great saying that quickens our faith and carries thought into a higher world conveyed no Divine meaning to the man from Naamah....
“The Triumphing of the Wicked” Job 20:1-29 Zophar is the man who least of all understood Job. The rebuke which Job had just administered, Job 19:28-29 , has vexed him, so that he speaks with i...
With evident haste, Zophar replied. His speech is introduced with an apology for his haste and a confession of his anger. He had heard the reproof, but he was not convinced; and the spirit of his und...
(1) В¶ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, (2) Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. (3) I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my under...
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer ,.... Or "to return" a and appear upon the stage again, and enter the lists once more with his antagonist; he suggests as if he had intended to have said...
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for [this] I make haste. Ver. 2. Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer ] q.d. Whereas I had thought, O Job, to have spoke no more to thee (...
Therefore For this thy severe sentence; do my thoughts cause me to answer I thought to have troubled myself and thee with no further discourses, but these words of thine make my former thoughts t...
THE WICKED MAN'S BRIEF TRIUMPH (vv.1-5) Zophar does not even consider the possibility that Job is not wicked, but again strongly condemns the wicked, making it evident that he is really speaking...
Second Address of Zophar; Destruction of the Wicked. B. C. 1520. 1 Then answered Zophar...
Therefore; for this thy severe sentence and denunciation of God's judgments against us, Job 19:29 , which much more justly belongs to thyself and is actually executed upon thee; and because of t...
ZOPHAR’S SECOND SPEECH Produces nothing new; much more outspoken than before. Enlarges on the miseries overtaking the wicked, insinuating that Job was such. His argument,—like in condition, like...
Job 20:2 . I make haste to answer, for thou reproachest both God and us. Zophar had felt the point of Job's sword, in the preseding discourse; but the present chapter may well be considered as a m...
EXPOSITION Job 20:1-18 Zophar's second speech is even more harsh than his first ( Job 11:1-18 .). He adds coarseness and rudeness to his former vehement hostility ( Job 20:7 , Job 20:15 )....
Zophar States Why he must Speak
Ecclesiastes 7:9 ; James 1:19 ; Jeremiah 20:9 ; Job 13:19 ; Job 20:3 ; Job 32:13-20 ; Job 4:2 ; Mark 6:25 ; Proverbs 14:29 ; Proverbs 29:20 ; Psalms 116:11 ; Psalms 31:22 ; Psalms 39:2 ;...
Therefore — For this thy severe sentence. Make haste — I speak sooner than I intended. And possibly interrupted Job, when he was proceeding in his discourse.