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Job 20:3
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I've had to endure your insults, but now my spirit prompts me to reply.
I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame, and the spirit of my understanding answereth me.
I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answers me.
You correct me and I am insulted, but I understand how to answer you.
When I hear a reproof that dishonors me, then my understanding prompts me to answer.
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame; The spirit of my understanding answers me.
"I have heard the reproof which insults me, But the spirit of my understanding makes me answer.
I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.
Y schal here the techyng, bi which thou repreuest me; and the spirit of myn vndurstondyng schal answere me.
I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding demands a reply.
You have accused and insulted me, and reason requires a reply.
I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me.
I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.
I have heard reproof that outrages me, but a spirit past my understanding gives me a reply.
I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and [my] spirit answereth me by mine understanding.
You insulted me with your answers! But I am wise and know how to answer you.
I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame, but out of my understanding my spirit answereth me.
I haue heard the checke of my reproach, and the spirit of my vnderstanding causeth me to answere.
I heard the strong words that take away my honor. The spirit of my understanding makes me answer.
I hear censure that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.
I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.
I will make you hear the instruction of my discipline, and the spirit of my understanding will cause me to answer.
What you have said is an insult, but I know how to reply to you.
The correction meant to confound me, I must hear, but, the spirit - out of my understanding, will give me a reply.
The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.
I hear censure which insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.
I haue sufficiently heard the checking of my reproofe, therefore the spirite of myne vnderstanding causeth me to aunswere.
I will hear my shameful reproach; and the spirit of my understanding answers me.
I have heard a rebuke that insults me,and my understanding makes me reply.
I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame; The spirit of my understanding answers me.
I hear discipline that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.
I have heard the instruction of my chastisement; and the spirit from my understanding makes me reply.
The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:
I haue sufficiently herde the checkynge & reprofe, therfore am I purposed to make answere after my vnderstodinge.
"I listened to the reprimand which insults me, And the spirit of my understanding makes me answer.
I have heard the rebuke that reproaches me, And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.
"I listened to the reproof which insults me, And the spirit of my understanding makes me answer.
I listened to the discipline which dishonors me,And the spirit of my understanding makes me answer.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the check: Job 19:29
the spirit: Job 20:2, Job 27:11, Job 33:3, Psalms 49:3, Psalms 78:2-5
Reciprocal: Job 12:2 - ye are the people Job 16:3 - what emboldeneth Job 26:4 - whose spirit
Cross-References
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.
And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I have heard the check of my reproach,.... He took it that Job had reproached him and his friends, by representing them as hardhearted men, and persecuting him wrongly in a violent manner; and he had observed the "check" or reproof given for it, by bidding them beware of the sword, and lest the punishment of it should be inflicted on them; and if that should not be the case, yet there was a righteous judgment they could not escape. Now Zophar heard this, but could not hear it with patience; be could not bear that he and his friends should be insulted, as he thought, in this manner; and therefore it was he was in such baste to return an answer; though some d think he here pretends to a divine oracle, like that which Eliphaz makes mention of in the beginning of this dispute, Job 4:12, c. which he had from God, and from which he had heard the "correction [of his] reproach" e, or a full confutation of the thing Job had reproached him with and being thus divinely furnished, he thought it his duty to deliver it:
and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer; or his rational spirit, his natural understanding, furnished him at once with an answer; he had such a clear insight into the controversy on foot, and such a full view of it, that he thought himself capable of speaking very particularly to the matter in hand, and to the conviction and confusion of Job; nay, his conscience, or the spirit of his conscience, as Mr. Broughton renders it, not only readily dictated to him what he should say, but obliged him to it; though some think he meant the Holy Spirit of God, by which he would be thought to be inspired; that he "out [of his] understanding" f, enlightened by him, caused him to answer, or would answer for him, or supply him with matter sufficient to qualify him for it; and this he might observe to Job, in order to raise his attention to what he was about to say.
d Schmidt. e מוסר כלמתי "correctionem ignominiae meae", Pagninus, Montanus; so Schmidt, Michaelis. f מבינתי "ex intelligentia mea", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Mercerus, Drusius, Schmidt, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I have heard the check of my reproach - I have heard your violent and severe language reproaching us. Probably he refers to what Job had said in the close of his speech Job 19:29, that they had occasion to dread the wrath of God, and that they might anticipate heavy judgments as the result of their opinions. Or it may be, as Schultens supposes, that he refers to what Job said in Job 19:2, and the rebuke that he had administered there. Or possibly, and still more probably, I think, he may refer to what Job had said in reply to the former speech of Zophar Job 12:2, where he tauntingly says that “they were the people, and that wisdom would die with them.” The Hebrew literally is, “the correction of my shame” (כלמה מוּסר mûsâr kelı̂mmâh), “the correction of my shame.” that is, the castigation or rebuke which tends to cover me with ignominy. The sense is, “you have accused me of that which is ignominious and shameful, and under the impetuous feelings caused by such a charge I cannot refrain from replying.”
And the spirit of my understanding - Meaning, perhaps, “the emotion of his mind.” The word “mind” or “soul” would better express the idea than the word “understanding;” and the word “spirit” here seems to be used in the sense of violent or agitating emotions - perhaps in allusion to the primary signification of the word (רוּח rûach), “mind.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 20:3. I have heard the check of my reproach — Some suppose that Zophar quotes the words of Job, and that some words should be supplied to indicate this meaning; e.g., "I have heard (sayest thou) the check or charge of my reproach?" Or it may refer to what Job says of Zophar and his companions, Job 19:2; Job 19:3: How long will ye vex may soul-these ten times have ye reproached me. Zophar therefore assumes his old ground, and retracts nothing of what he had said. Like many of his own complexion in the present day, he was determined to believe that his judgment was infallible, and that he could not err.
