Job 20:3
The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:
Young's Literal Translation
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 my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.
4This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?
Cross References
Job 19:3These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me —
Job 20:2Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.
Job 33:3Of the uprightness of my heart [are] my sayings, And knowledge have my lips clearly spoken.
Psalms 78:2I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things 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 →