Job 20:2
Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, even because of my haste that is in me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
In Context
1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, and said,
3I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame, and the spirit of my understanding answers me.
Cross References
Job 4:2If a man tries to converse with thee, will thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
Job 20:3I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame, and the spirit of my understanding answers me.
Psalms 31:22As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes. Nevertheless thou heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to thee.
Psalms 116:11I said in my haste, All men are liars.
Proverbs 29:20See thou a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Jeremiah 20:9And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot.
Matthew Henry on Job 20:2-10
Second Address of Zophar; Destruction of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, 2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. 3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. 4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto… Read the whole commentary →