Zophar
Now the third of Job's friends will add his testimony against the agonizing sufferer. Brazenly he accused Job of being entirely false. Put away your iniquity, he said, and then your troubles, shall cease.
It was all wrong; Job was no hypocrite. There might be, the poor man thought, some sin he did not know about, because of which God was punishing him, and part of his suffering was because he could not think what it might be.
Job believed that he had been living' in a clear conscience before God, and what his friends said hurt him very deeply, for it is always hard to be misjudged, especially by one's friends, But Job had too good an opinion of himself, and that is a hard thing to lose,