Zophar is beginning to consider the implications of what Job is saying – but he is not considering Job as the Servant of the LORD!
And so Zophar is getting rattled. He understands full well that if Job is right, then everything he believes is wrong.
Zophar was the first of the friends to conclude that Job must be a terrible sinner. In his first speech, Zophar had said that “God exacts of you less than you deserve.” You deserve worse from God!
Zophar would have liked the Shorter Catechism's statement: “Every sin deserves God's wrath and curse, both in this life and that which is to come.”
Well, actually, it is not clear that Zophar has any idea of the “life to come” – and so Zophar would wind up teaching that “every sin deserves God's wrath and curse in this life” – which winds up making this life the focus of his entire theology.
Now Zophar realizes that Job has set out to destroy the traditional wisdom theology that the three friends base their lives on.
And so as Zophar lays out the portion of the wicked, he takes Job's own language and says, yes, my friend, you are right that God is going after you – he is going after you because you have sinned against him...
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