“Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,”
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:" Zophar delivers his second speech, the shortest and most aggressive of his contributions. Where the earlier friends had engaged in some debate, Zophar now moves directly to assertion of certain doom for the wicked. The formal opening indicates continuation despite Job's affirmation of faith.
Church Fathers on Job 20:1
Therefore do my thoughts changefully succeed one another, and my mind is transported diverse ways. As though he said in plain words; ‘Because I see the terribleness of the last Judgment, therefore I am confounded in a state of consternation by the tumults of my thoughts.’ For the mind spreads itself wider in its range of thought, the more it considers how dreadful that is which threatens it. And ‘the mind is transported diverse ways,’ when with anxious alarm she weighs and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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