Job 20:3

Reproof which casteth shame on me must I hear; yet out of my understanding will the spirit give me an answer.

Leeser Tanakh

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

2Even therefore do my inmost thoughts give me an answer, and for this reason do I feel a strong excitement within me.

4Dost thou know this? from the very beginning of things, from the very time when man was placed upon earth it was,

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Cross References

Job 19:3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed when ye show yourselves as strangers to me.

Job 20:2Even therefore do my inmost thoughts give me an answer, and for this reason do I feel a strong excitement within me.

Job 33:3Out of my straightforward heart [come] my sayings, and my lips utter knowledge clearly.

Psalms 78:2I will open with a parable my mouth: I will utter riddles out of ancient 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 →

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