Job 11:1

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Zophar’s First Speech to Job Then Zophar the Naamathite spoke up and said:

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  • Job 2:11 : 11 The Visit of Job’s Friends When Job’s three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country– Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.
  • Job 20:1 : 1 Zophar’s Second Speech Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

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  • 32If you have any words, reply to me; speak, for I want to justify you.

  • 9Then Satan answered the LORD,“Is it for nothing that Job fears God?

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  • 5But if only God would speak, if only he would open his lips against you,

  • 22Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you respond to me.

  • 3But I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

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  • 4I will reply to you, and to your friends with you.

  • 12Now I was paying you close attention, yet there was no one proving Job wrong, not one of you was answering his statements!

  • 34So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!”