KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 20:3–4
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Job 20:3
3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
3I haue heard the checke of my reproach, and the spirit of my vnderstanding causeth me to answere.
Job 20:4
4Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
4Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed vpon earth,
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 20:3
Reproof; rebuke.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Shame; infamy; disgrace. That which is the cause of shame or disgrace.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
understanding
Discernment, intelligence, comprehension, or the faculty of knowing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A reply or response; as a verb, to reply, respond, or give account.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 20:4
Advanced in age; having existed a long time; former or belonging to an earlier time.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Set; fixed; located; established.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The ground or dry land; the world or inhabited realm; or a country and its people, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 3
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Open the full verse study3My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
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Open the full verse study29Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
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Open the full verse study3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
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Open the full verse study2Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
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Open the full verse study11I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
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Open the full verse study3My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
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Open the full verse study2I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
3Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
5For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
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Open the full verse study28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
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Open the full verse study1AND God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
3Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
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Open the full verse study10With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
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Open the full verse study7I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
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Open the full verse study8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
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Open the full verse study16The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
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