Job chapter 20 and 21

After reading chapter 20:

*Now Zophar speaks. He is greatly disturbed by hearing a rebuke that dishonors him. His understanding causes him to reply. His reply is another poetic tirade of all the bad things that will happen to the wicked. That man's guilt will be exposed by the fate that God allots to the wicked.

After reading chapter 21:

*Job replies. He asks his " friends" to listen to his words, at least that would be some consolation. His complaint is not directed to men, presumably to God. In poetic language he asks why the wicked prosper, in his experience,  even if they ignore God. This is in contrast to his friends' assertions that the wicked recieve what they deserve in this life. How often do they actually reap god's anger that has been said to be their fate?

*Then Job reminds them of a saying,"God stores up a man's punishment for his sons." Why doesn't he punish the man himself? God has the knowledge and the power to judge, but one man dies in ease, another dies in bitterness. They both end up the same place, in the grave.

*Next Job says he knows what they are thinking and they are wrong. They want to know where these wicked men who prosper live. He tells them to ask the people who travel through. Travellers will tell stories of evil men who are spared divine retribution and have numerous followers. So Job's friends' words are nonsense and falsehoods.