Job 20:3
The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,
Cross References
Job 19:3Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.
Job 20:2Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.
Job 33:3My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence.
Psalms 78:2I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.
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 →