Job 20:3
The correction meant to confound me, I must hear, but, the spirit—out of my understanding, will give me a reply.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
2Not so, do my thoughts answer me, and to this end, is my haste within me:
4Knowest thou, this—from antiquity, from the placing of man upon earth:—
Cross References
Job 19:3These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me.
Job 20:2Not so, do my thoughts answer me, and to this end, is my haste within me:
Job 33:3Mine utterances come straight from mine own heart, and, what I know, my lips have truly spoken;
Psalms 78:2I will open, in a parable, my mouth, I will pour forth enigmas out of antiquity;—
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 →