Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
my thoughts
Job 20:3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding …
Job 4:2 If we assay to commune with you, will you be grieved? but who can …
Job 13:19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, …
Job 32:13-20 Lest you should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusts him down, not man…
Psalm 39:2,3 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my …
Jeremiah 20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name…
Romans 10:2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according …
and for
Psalm 31:22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless …
Psalm 116:11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
Proverbs 14:29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is …
Proverbs 29:20 See you a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a …
Ecclesiastes 7:9 Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry: for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Mark 6:25 And she came in straightway with haste to the king, and asked, saying…
James 1:19 Why, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to …
I make haste. Heb. my haste is in me
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
thou not
Job 8:8,9 For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself …
Job 15:10 With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much elder than your father.
Job 32:7 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
man
Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, …
Genesis 9:1-3 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, …
Psalm 115:16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth has he …
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
the triumphing
Job 5:3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Job 15:29-34 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither …
Job 18:5,6 Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his …
Job 27:13-23 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of …
Exodus 15:9,10 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the …
Judges 16:21-30 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him …
Esther 5:11,12 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude …
Esther 7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. …
Psalm 37:35,36 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like …
Psalm 73:18-20 Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into …
Acts 12:22,23 And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and …
short. Heb. from near. the joy
Job 8:19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
Job 27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when …
Matthew 7:21 Not every one that said to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom …
Matthew 13:20,21 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that …
Galatians 6:4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing …
James 4:16 But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
his excellency
Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top …
Isaiah 14:13,14 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will …
Daniel 4:11,22 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached to …
Amos 9:2 Though they dig into hell, there shall my hand take them; though …
Obadiah 1:3,4 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you that dwell in the clefts …
Matthew 11:23 And you, Capernaum, which are exalted to heaven, shall be brought …
clouds. Heb. cloud
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
The eye
Job 20:7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen …
Job 7:8,10 The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no more: your eyes are …
Job 8:18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, …
Job 27:3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
Psalm 37:10,36 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yes, you shall …
Psalm 103:15,16 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes…
His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
His children, etc. or, The poor shall oppress his children
Proverbs 28:3 A poor man that oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food.
seek
Psalm 109:10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek …
his hands
Job 20:18 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow …
Exodus 12:36 And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, …
Exodus 22:1,3 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; …
Exodus 9:2 For if you refuse to let them go, and will hold them still,
2 Samuel 12:6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, …
Proverbs 6:31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all …
Luke 19:8 And Zacchaeus stood, and said to the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half …
His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
bones
Job 13:26 For you write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the …
Job 19:20 My bone sticks to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with …
Psalm 25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according …
Proverbs 5:11-13,22,23 And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed…
Ezekiel 32:27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, …
which shall lie
Job 21:26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
Proverbs 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has …
Ezekiel 24:13 In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged you, and you …
John 8:21,24 Then said Jesus again to them, I go my way, and you shall seek me, …
Acts 1:25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which …
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
his meat
2 Samuel 11:2-5 And it came to pass in an evening, that David arose from off his …
2 Samuel 12:10,11 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house; because …
Psalm 32:3,4 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long…
Psalm 38:1-8 O lord, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot …
Psalm 51:8,9 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which you have broken …
Proverbs 1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled …
Proverbs 23:20,21,29-35 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh…
Jeremiah 2:19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall …
Malachi 2:2 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give …
the gall
Job 20:16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
Deuteronomy 32:24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, …
Romans 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used …
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
shall not see
Numbers 14:23 Surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, …
2 Kings 7:2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, …
Jeremiah 17:6-8 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when …
Luke 16:24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send …
the rivers
Psalm 36:8,9 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of your house; …
Isaiah 41:17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their …
Jeremiah 17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when …
Revelation 22:1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, …
floods. or, streaming brooks. of honey
Deuteronomy 32:13,14 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat …
2 Samuel 17:29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of cows, for David, …
Psalm 81:16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with …
Isaiah 7:15,22 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, …
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
shall he restore. See on
Job 20:10,15 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore …
swallow
Job 20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite …
Proverbs 1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that …
Jeremiah 51:34,44 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed …
Lamentations 2:16 All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they hiss and …
Hosea 8:7,8 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it …
Amos 8:4 Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor …
Matthew 23:14,24 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' …
his substance. Heb. the substance of his exchange. and he shall
Job 31:25,29 If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much…
Isaiah 24:7-11 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry hearted do sigh…
Jeremiah 11:15,16 What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness …
Jeremiah 22:13,17 Woe to him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers …
Ezekiel 7:12 The time is come, the day draws near: let not the buyer rejoice, …
Hosea 9:1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have gone …
James 4:8,9 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, …
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
Because
Job 21:27,28 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully …
Job 22:6 For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped …
Job 24:2-12 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof…
Job 31:13-22,38,39 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, …
Job 35:9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed …
1 Samuel 12:3,4 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before …
Psalm 10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth …
Psalm 12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now …
Proverbs 14:31 He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors …
Proverbs 22:22,23 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted …
Ecclesiastes 4:1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under …
Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of …
Ezekiel 22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, …
Amos 4:1-3 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, …
James 2:6,13 But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and …
James 5:4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, …
oppressed. Heb. crushed
Deuteronomy 28:33 The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall a nation which …
Lamentations 3:34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
he hath violently
Job 18:15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone …
Job 24:2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
1 Kings 21:19 And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus said the LORD, Have you …
Isaiah 5:7,8 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and …
Micah 2:2,9 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and …
Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
the fulness
Job 15:29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither …
Job 18:7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel …
Psalm 39:5 Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as …
Ecclesiastes 2:18-20 Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because …
Revelation 18:7 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much …
every hand
Job 1:15,17 And the Sabeans fell on them, and took them away; yes, they have …
Job 16:11 God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the …
2 Kings 24:2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of …
Isaiah 10:6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people …
wicked. or, troublesome
Job 3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
he is about
Numbers 11:33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, …
Psalm 78:30,31 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was …
Malachi 2:2 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give …
Luke 12:17-20 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I …
rain it
Genesis 19:24 Then the LORD rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah brimstone and fire …
Exodus 9:23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent …
Psalm 11:6 On the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible …
Psalm 78:30,31 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was …
Isaiah 21:4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure …
He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
flee from
1 Kings 20:30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell …
Isaiah 24:18 And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the …
Jeremiah 48:43,44 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be on you, O inhabitant of …
Amos 5:19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into …
Amos 9:1-3 I saw the LORD standing on the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel …
the bow
2 Samuel 22:35 He teaches my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.
strike him
Proverbs 7:23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, …
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
drawn
Job 16:13 His archers compass me round about, he splits my reins asunder, and …
Deuteronomy 32:41 If I whet my glittering sword, and my hand take hold on judgment; …
2 Samuel 18:14 Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with you. And he took three …
Psalm 7:12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.
terrors
Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof …
Job 15:21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
Job 18:11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
Job 27:20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest steals him away in the night.
Psalm 73:19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly …
Psalm 88:15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer …
Jeremiah 20:3,4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah …
2 Corinthians 5:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we …
All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
darkness
Job 18:5,6 Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his …
Isaiah 8:22 And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, …
Matthew 8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: …
Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, …
a fire
Psalm 21:9 You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the …
Psalm 120:4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
Isaiah 30:33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yes, for the king it is prepared; …
Matthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, …
it shall go
Job 18:19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining …
Psalm 109:9-15 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow…
Isaiah 14:20-22 You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed …
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
heaven
Psalm 44:20,21 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands …
Jeremiah 29:23 Because they have committed villainy in Israel, and have committed …
Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness …
Luke 12:2,3 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither …
Romans 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ …
1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who …
earth
Job 16:18 O earth, cover not you my blood, and let my cry have no place.
Job 18:18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Isaiah 26:21 For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants …
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
increase
Job 20:10,18-22 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore …
Job 5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, …
Job 27:14-19 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring …
2 Kings 20:17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and that which …
Revelation 18:17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nothing. And every shipmaster, …
and his goods
Proverbs 11:4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivers from death.
Zephaniah 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them …
Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and …
James 5:1-3 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall …
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
