Job 20:3
I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
In Context
2For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.
4Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,
Cross References
Job 19:3Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.
Job 20:2For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.
Job 33:3My heart is overflowing with knowledge, my lips say what is true.
Psalms 78:2Opening my mouth I will give out a story, even the dark sayings of old times;
Matthew Henry on Job 20:2-10
Second Address of Zophar; Destruction of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, 2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. 3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. 4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto… Read the whole commentary →