Job 20:2
In response, various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind moves quickly through different ideas.
Catholic Public Domain 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 by saying:
Cross References
Job 4:2If we start to speak to you, perhaps you will take it badly, but who can hold back the words he has conceived?
Job 20:3The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me.
Proverbs 29:20Have you seen a man rushing to speak? Foolishness has more hope than his correction.
Jeremiah 20:9Then I said: I will not call him to mind, nor will I speak any longer in his name. And my heart became like a raging fire, enclosed within my bones. And I became weary of continuing to bear it.
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 →