Job 20:3
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
I haue heard the checke of my reproach, and the spirit of my vnderstanding causeth me to answere.
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2I 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:
2*I will open my mouth in a parable: I wil vtter darke sayings of old:
3Which we haue heard, & knowen: and our fathers haue told vs.
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.
5*For he established a Testimony in Iacob, and appointed a Law in Israel, which he commaunded our fathers: that they should make them knowen to their children.
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Job 20:3
Sense 1: Perceived by the ear. Sense 2: Received or learned by report. Sense 3: Listened to, regarded, or heeded. Sense 4: Favourably attended to.
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Reproof; rebuke.
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Sense 1: Shame, disgrace, dishonour, contempt, blame, reviling, or taunt. Sense 2: As a verb, to shame, insult, blame, or speak contemptuously against.
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Sense 1: An immaterial living or personal being distinct from a body. Sense 2: The inward life, disposition, mind, or courage of a person. Sense 3: The Holy Spirit, the divine Spirit of God.
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understanding
1. The capacity or act of perceiving, comprehending, discerning, judging, interpreting, or applying knowledge. 2. Knowledge, insight, wisdom, or prudent judgment possessed or gained. 3. Skill or ability in a work, art, subject, vision, saying, or interpretation.
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Sense 1: A reply or response. Sense 2: As a verb, to reply, respond, or give account.
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20:1THEN answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
20:1¶ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and saide,
20:2Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
20:2Therefore doe my thoughts cause mee to answere, and for this †I make haste.
20:3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
20:3I haue heard the checke of my reproach, and the spirit of my vnderstanding causeth me to answere.
Selected passage20:4Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
20:4Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed vpon earth,
20:5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
20:5*That the triumphing of the wicked is †short, and the ioy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
20:6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
20:6Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauens, and his head reach vnto the †clouds:
20:7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
20:7 Yet he shall perish for euer, like his owne doung: they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is he?
20:8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
20:8He shall flie away as a dreame, and shall not be found: yea he shalbe chased away as a vision of the night.
20:9The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
20:9The eye also which saw him, shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
20:10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
20:10‖His children shall seeke to please the poore, and his hands shall restore their goods.
20:11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
20:11His bones are ful of the sinne of his youth, which shall ye downe with him in the dust.
20:12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
20:12Though wickednes be sweet in his mouth, though hee hide it vnder his tongue;
20:13Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
20:13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keepe it stil †within his mouth:
20:14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
20:14 Yet his meate in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of Aspes within him.
20:15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
20:15He hath swallowed downe riches, and hee shall vomite them vp againe: God shall cast them out of his belly.
20:16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
20:16He shall sucke the poison of Aspes: the vipers tongue shall slay him.
20:17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
20:17Hee shall not see the riuers, ‖the floods, the brookes of hony and butter.
20:18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
20:18That which he laboured for, shall he restore, & shall not swallow it downe: †according to his substance shall the restitution bee, and hee shall not reioyce therein.
20:19Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
20:19Because hee hath †oppressed, and hath forsaken the poore; because he hath violently taken away an *house which he builded not:
20:20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
20:20Surely he shall not †feele quietnesse in his belly, hee shall not saue of that which he desired.
20:21There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
20:21‖There shall none of his meat be left, therefore shall no man looke for his goods.
20:22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
20:22In the fulnesse of his sufficiencie, he shalbe in straites: euery hand of the ‖wicked shall come vpon him.
20:23When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
20:23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the furie of his wrath vpon him, and shall raine it vpon him while he is eating.
20:24He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
20:24He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steele shall strike him through.
20:25It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
20:25It is drawen, and commeth out of the body; yea the glistering sword commeth out of his gall; terrours are vpon him.
20:26All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
20:26All darknesse shalbe hid in his secret places: a fire not blowen shall consume him; it shall goe ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
20:27The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
20:27The heauen shall reueale his iniquitie: and the earth shall rise vp against him.
20:28The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
20:28The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
20:29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
20:29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage †appointed vnto him by God.