Job 20:2
Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
In Context
1And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
3I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and [my] spirit answereth me by mine understanding.
Cross References
Job 4:2If a word were essayed to thee, wouldest thou be grieved? But who can refrain from speaking?
Job 20:3I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and [my] spirit answereth me by mine understanding.
Psalms 31:22As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes; nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
Psalms 116:11I said in my haste, All men are liars.
Proverbs 29:20Hast thou seen a man hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Jeremiah 20:9And I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name: but it was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; and I became wearied with holding in, and I could not.
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 →