(1) В¶ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, (2) Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? (3) Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? (4) For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
Of all the friends of Job, this Zophar seems the most unfriendly. The others had, in some measure, softened their speeches, with fair words; but this man is outrageous to an excess. He calls Job's reasoning lies and mockery. Poor Job! surely Satan must have had a hand in this. And Reader let us from hence discover, that the arch fiend doth make use even of our friends, when other resourses fail him, to exercise the faith and patience of GOD'S children. Our LORD tells us that a man's foes, are they of his own household. Matthew 10:36. And no doubt never more so, than when in exercises like these of Job, they cooperate with the great enemy of our salvation, to persecute for the cause of CHRIST.