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Job 20:3 KJV
Job · chapter 20 · verse 3
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.Job 20:3 · King James Version
Job 20:3 in context
1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
4Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- understandingbîynâhunderstandingH998 →
- reproachkᵉlimmâhdisgraceH3639 →
- spiritrûwachwindH7307 →
- heardshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
- checkmûwçârproperly, chastisementH4148 →
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Here, I. Zophar begins very passionately, and seems to be in a great heat at what Job had said. Being resolved to condemn Job for a bad man, he was much displeased that he talked so like a good man, and, as it should seem, broke in upon him, and began abruptly (Job 20:2): Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9