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 thy friends, were void of all humanity and natural affection toward thee, and were haters and persecutors of thee; and as if we were guilty of very heinous crimes, and might expect God's vengeance upon us. And the spirit of my understanding That is, my soul or mind, causeth me to answer Constraineth me to speak. Or, the words רוח מבינתי, ruach mibbinathi, may be rendered, my spirit, or mind, because of my understanding, that is, out of, or because of, that certain knowledge which I have of this matter from consideration and experience. I speak not from passion, but from certain knowledge.