King James Version
Job 20:3 in the King James Version says “I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.” — study this verse from Job chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.”
Job 20:3 · KJV
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. I make: Heb. my haste is in me
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? short: Heb. from near
KJV Study — Public Domain
“the check”
H4148properly, chastisement; figuratively, reproof, warning or instruction; also restraint
“I have heard”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“and the spirit”
H7307wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
“causeth me to answer”
H6030properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e., pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout,
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