Job 20:3
The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
4This, I know, is from the beginning, from the time that man was set over the earth:
Cross References
Job 19:3So, ten times you confound me and are not ashamed to oppress me.
Job 20:2In response, various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind moves quickly through different ideas.
Job 33:3My words are from my simple heart, and my lips will speak a pure judgment.
Psalms 78:2They have placed the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints for the beasts of the earth.
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 →