Job 20:3
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
Webster 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
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 →