Catholic Public Domain Version
"The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me."
— Job 20:3, Catholic Public Domain Version
“I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.”
“I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me. ”
“I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.”
“When I hear a reproof that dishonors me, then my understanding prompts me to answer.”
“The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.”
“I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.”
“I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.”
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered by saying:
In response, various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind moves quickly through different ideas.
The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me.
This, I know, is from the beginning, from the time that man was set over the earth:
that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.
If his pride ascends even towards the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,