Job 20:3
I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
Majority Standard Bible
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“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.
4Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,
Cross References
Job 19:3Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.
Job 20:2“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.
Job 33:3My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.
Psalms 78:2I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden 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 →