Now is the turn for Job's third friend or comforter to comment on Job's predicament. His name is Zophar, (and with friends like the 3 "comforters" who needs enemies?) Zophar accuses Job of idle talk and mockery, and that Job's hidden sin was the cause of his suffering. Nevertheless Zophar says that Job should be grateful because God was even letting him off from a lot! Zophar points to God's mysteries as fathomless being longer than the earth and wider than the sea, and God recognizes deceitful men. The only solution, Zophar says, is for Job to put away his sin and allow no evil to dwell in his tent! For if Job puts his life right before God things will change and "life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning". However he says that "the eyes of the wicked will fail" and "their hope will become a dying gasp"!
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