Job 20:3
I hear the discipline of my shame, || And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer:
Literal Standard 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
2“Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, || And because of my sensations in me.
4Have you known this from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?
Cross References
Job 19:3These ten times you put me to shame, you do not blush. You make yourselves strange to me—
Job 20:2“Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, || And because of my sensations in me.
Job 33:3Of the uprightness of my heart [are] my sayings, || And my lips have clearly spoken knowledge.
Psalms 78:2I open my mouth with an allegory, || I bring forth hidden things of old,
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 →