(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 understanding causeth me to answer.
The Reader should observe in the very opening of Zophar's sermon, that notwithstanding all his violence in support of what he calls good men, and the punishment of the wicked, he gives no testimony of goodness in his own heart, for he shows not the least compassion to Jobadiah Surely had he felt as a good man, he never could have added misery to a heart that was afflicted like Job's, nor when the poor man cried out, Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O my friends, as he had just done, have instantly insulted him as he doth in this chapter. Reader! depend upon it there is no true source for morality, and the common charities of life, but in the grace of GOD in JESUS CHRIST; and the only dependence for the exercise of the love of man, must be found in the love of GOD.