“In this passage Zophar speaks impudently and seriously insults Job. By scorning him, as the other two friends had already done, Zophar also defamed him for the following reason. After the beginning, after human beings came into existence, they felt "joy" and happiness in the fall "of the impious" and the "destruction…”
Hesychius of Jerusalem, 5th c. — HOMILIES ON JOB 24.20.5
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4Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
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2Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
— Job 20:4 —
5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;