Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 3. I have heard the check of my reproach ] Some suppose that Zophar quotes the words of Job, and that some words should be supplied to indicate this meaning; e.g., "I have heard (sayest thou) the check or charge of my reproach?" Or it may refer to what Job says of Zophar and his companions, chap. xix. 2, 3: How long will ye vex may soul-these ten times have ye reproached me. Zophar therefore assumes his old ground, and retracts nothing of what he had said. Like many of his own complexion in the present day, he was determined to believe that his judgment was infallible, and that he could not err.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-9 - Zophar's discourse is upon the certain misery of the wicked. The triumph of the wicked and the joy of the hypocrite are fleeting. The pleasures and gains of sin bring disease and pain; they end in remorse anguish, and ruin. Dissembled piety is double iniquity, and the rui that attends it will be accordingly.
Original Hebrew מוסר4148 כלמתי3639 אשׁמע8085 ורוח7307 מבינתי998 יענני׃6030
