Job 20:3
I will hear my shameful reproach; 1 And the spirit of my understanding answers me. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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
2I did not suppose that thou wouldest answer thus: 1 Neither do ye understand more than I. 1
4Hast thou not known these things of old, 1 From the time that man was set upon the earth? 1
Cross References
Job 19:3Ye speak against me; ye do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me. 1
Job 20:2I did not suppose that thou wouldest answer thus: 1 Neither do ye understand more than I. 1
Job 33:3My heart shall be found pure by my words; 1 And the understanding of my lips shall meditate purity. 1
Psalms 78:2They have given the dead bodies of thy servants 1 To be food for the birds of the sky, 1 The flesh of thy holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth. 1
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 →