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Job Chapter 20 verse 3 Holy Bible

ASV Job 20:3

I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me.
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BBE Job 20:3

I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.
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DARBY Job 20:3

I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and [my] spirit answereth me by mine understanding.
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KJV Job 20:3

I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
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WBT Job 20:3

I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
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WEB Job 20:3

I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame; The spirit of my understanding answers me.
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YLT Job 20:3

The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - I have heard the check of my reproach; or, the reproof which putteth me to shame (Revised Version). Some suppose an allusion to Job 19:2, 3; but it is better to regard Zophar as enraged by vers. 28, 29 of Job 19. And the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. This claim is not quite consistent with the acknowledgment of hastiness in ver. 2. But it is no unusual thing for an impetuous and hasty man to declare that he speaks from the dictates of pure dispassionate reason.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) I have heard the check of my reproach.--Rather, I have heard, or, I hear the reproof of my shame: that is, a reproof that puts me to shame, or is intended to do so.The spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.--Or, more literally, Out of my understanding my spirit answereth me, or causeth me to answer. He professes to be moved by an impulse within, which he cannot but obey.