April 9, 2026
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Reading along with us in Job? Here’s today’s reading:
Job 20 (NIV)
Zophar
1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
2“My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer
because I am greatly disturbed.…..Continue Reading
Job 20.
The wicked have very little to go for them according to Zophar and I imagine God agrees. The wicked seem to live high on the hog, and yet consequences will come to them in every facet of life. Even the things they promote and enjoy will reap negative things for them. We are wise to follow the ways of righteousness and avoid the ways of wickedness. Zophar’s only problem is he apparently thinks Job falls into the category of the wicked and is suffering the consequences he describes because of it.
Job 20
Job 20
Job 20
Zophar continues to assume there is something wicked in Job that has caused all this calamity to fall on him. Even worse, he almost suggests that what he knew of Job from before was the evidence. He suggests that the wicked do live the high life in the short term and it ends up catching up with them. So implying that Job has always had something evil within him and God is finally flushing it out. Again, not a supportive friend but unfortunately a conclussion many of us would come to seeing this situationn unfold for someone in our lives as well. So it warns us to pray, think, and ask questions before we speak.
Zophar’s starting premise, that Job is evil, is false. Yes these are the consequences of the wicked, but since Job suffers these things doesn’t make him evil.