Job 20:3
I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
BSB
ASV
I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me.
KJV
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,.... 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.
Men often mistake the dictates of their passion for the dictates of their reason, and therefore think they do well to be angry. Zophar proceeds very plainly to show the ruin and destruction of wicked people, insinuating that because Job was destroyed and ruined he was certainly a wicked man and a hypocrite. How this doctrine is introduced,
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.
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Through
Psalms 49:3My mouth will impart wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will bring understanding.
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The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure.
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,
Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise—apply your mind to my knowledge—
From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Through
Job 27:11I will instruct you in the power of God. I will not conceal the ways of the Almighty.
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O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people: