Job 20:5

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, that it never extends over a long period of time, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment, that the joyful confidence of the ungodly cannot last? This was probably directed at Job's certainty of eventual vindication, as he had expressed it at the end of his last speech, 19:25-27. Zophar was a representative of the class of people who feel obliged to parade their own judgment in every case that comes to their notice.