Job 20:6

MORE OF ZOPHAR'S NONSENSE ABOUT THE WICKED

"Though his height mount up to the heavens,

And his head reach unto the clouds;

Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung:

They that 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 which saw him shall see him no more;

Neither shall his place any more behold him.

His children shall seek the favor of the poor,

And his hands shall give back his wealth.

His bones are full of his youth,

But it shall lie down with him in the dust."

"Though his height mount up to heaven" (Job 20:6). It is pride which Zophar mentioned here. "His words against pride are not altogether false; "It is his application of them to Job that was sinful."[6] It is the wickedness of Zophar's view that the present world is "all there is," and that it is "all there's ever going to be" that marks him as an agent of the devil here.

"His children shall seek the favor of the poor" (Job 20:10), etc. "This picture of destitution may include the thought of poetic justice: his children will have to beg from the poor who begged in vain from their father."[7] This view, it would seem to this writer, is a little far-fetched; but a number of scholars have suggested it.