Job 20:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

Job 20:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 33:3
My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
Job 19:3
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
Job 27:11
I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
Psalms 78:2-5
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: …
Job 19:29
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

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. He takes no notice of what Job had said to move their pity, or to evidence his own…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. check of my reproach--that is, the castigation intended as a reproach (literally, “shame”) to me. spirit of ... understanding--my rational spirit; answering to “calm thoughts” (Job 20:2). In spite of thy reproach urging me to “hastiness.” I will answer in calm reason.