Job 20:3
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
King James Version
In Context
2Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
4Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
Cross References
Job 19:3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
Job 20:2Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
Job 33:3My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
Psalms 78:2I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings 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 →