Job 20:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Job 20:3 - Albert 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...

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• Job 20:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  I have heard (a) the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. (a) He declares that two things moved him to speak: that is, because Job seemed to touch him, and...

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• Job 20:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 20. Second Speech of Zophar. Zophar helps the return to the wider problem by appearing once more with a strong doctrine as to the shortness of the prosperity of the wicked. His theme is, Sin br...

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• Job 20:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  check . correction. of . for: i.e. meant to confound me, referring to ch App-19. spirit of . spirit from. Hebrew. ruach. App-9.

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• Job 20:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. I have heard the check of my reproach - Some suppose that Zophar quotes the words of Job, and that some...

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• Job 20:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  I have heard the check of my reproach— I hear the ignominious reproof which is aimed at me; and the spirit within me causeth me to answer. Heath.

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• Job 20:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. Check of my reproach - i:e., the castigation intended as a reproach (literally, shame) to me (...

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• Job 20:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Zophar's Second Speech Zophar ignores Job's conviction that God will one day establish his innocence, and proceeds to describe the short triumph of the wicked and his certain downfall and punishme...

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• Job 20:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  I have heard the check of my reproach. — Rather, I have heard, or, I hear the reproof of my shame: that is, a reproof that puts me to shame, or is intended to do so. The spirit of my understa...

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• Job 20:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XVII. IGNORANT CRITICISM OF LIFE Job 20:1-29 ZOPHAR SPEAKS THE great saying that quickens our faith and carries thought into a higher world conveyed no Divine meaning to the man from Naamah....

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• Job 20:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Triumphing of the Wicked” Job 20:1-29 Zophar is the man who least of all understood Job. The rebuke which Job had just administered, Job 19:28-29 , has vexed him, so that he speaks with i...

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• Job 20:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  With evident haste, Zophar replied. His speech is introduced with an apology for his haste and a confession of his anger. He had heard the reproof, but he was not convinced; and the spirit of his und...

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• Job 20:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) В¶ 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 under...

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• Job 20:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 h...

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• Job 20:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. Ver. 3. I have heard the check of my reproach ] Zophar conceived himself disgraced as well as menace...

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• Job 20:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  I have heard Or, Shall I hear? Namely, with patience, and without a reply? Who can endure it? The check of my reproach That is, thy shameful and opprobrious reproofs of us, as if we, and all th...

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• Job 20:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE WICKED MAN'S BRIEF TRIUMPH (vv.1-5) Zophar does not even consider the possibility that Job is not wicked, but again strongly condemns the wicked, making it evident that he is really speaking...

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• Job 20:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Second Address of Zophar; Destruction of the Wicked. B. C. 1520.       1 Then answered Zophar...

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• Job 20:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I have heard from thy mouth. Or, Shall I hear , to wit, with patience, and without a reply? Who can endure it? The check of my reproach, i.e. thy shameful and opprobrious reproofs of us, as if w...

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• Job 20:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  ZOPHAR’S SECOND SPEECH Produces nothing new; much more outspoken than before. Enlarges on the miseries overtaking the wicked, insinuating that Job was such. His argument,—like in condition, like...

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• Job 20:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 20:2 . I make haste to answer, for thou reproachest both God and us. Zophar had felt the point of Job's sword, in the preseding discourse; but the present chapter may well be considered as a m...

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• Job 20:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 20:1-18 Zophar's second speech is even more harsh than his first ( Job 11:1-18 .). He adds coarseness and rudeness to his former vehement hostility ( Job 20:7 , Job 20:15 )....

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• Job 20:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Zophar States Why he must Speak

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• Job 20:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 19:29 ; Job 20:2 ; Job 27:11 ; Job 33:3 ; Psalms 49:3 ; Psalms 78:2-5

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• Job 20:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The check — Thy opprobrious reproofs of us. Understanding — I speak, not from passion, but certain knowledge.

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