&c. which he had from God, and from which he had heard the "correction [of his] reproach" , or a full confutation of the thing Job had reproached him with; and being thus divinely furnished, he thought it his duty to deliver it:and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer; or his rational spirit, his natural understanding, furnished him at once with an answer; he had such a clear insight into the controversy on foot, and such a full view of it, that he thought himself capable of speaking very particularly to the matter in hand, and to the conviction and confusion of Job; nay, his conscience, or the spirit of his conscience, as Mr.
Broughton renders it, not only readily dictated to him what he should say, but obliged him to it; though some think he meant the Holy Spirit of God, by which he would be thought to be inspired; that he "out [of his] understanding" , enlightened by him, caused him to answer, or would answer for him, or supply him with matter sufficient to qualify him for it; and this he might observe to Job, in order to raise his attention to what he was about to say.
Schmidt. ytmlk rowm "correctionem ignominiae meae", Pagninus, Montanus; so Schmidt, Michaelis.