Job 20:3
Good News Translation
What you have said is an insult, but I know how to reply to you.

New Revised Standard Version
I hear censure that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.

Contemporary English Version
You have accused and insulted me, and reason requires a reply.

New American Bible
A rebuke that puts me to shame I hear, and from my understanding a spirit gives me a reply.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.

the check

Job 19:29 Flee then from the face of the sword, for the sword is the revenger of iniquities: and know ye that there is a judgment.

the spirit

Job 20:2 Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.

Job 27:11 I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.

Job 33:3 My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence.

Psalm 49:3 My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding.

Psalm 78:2-5 I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning. . . .

Context
Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
2Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things. 3The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.4This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,…
Cross References
Job 19:3
Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.

Job 20:2
Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.

Job 20:2
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