Job 20:2
Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
In Context
1Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:
Cross References
Job 4:2If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill, but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?
Job 20:3The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.
Psalms 31:22Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me in a fortified city.
Psalms 116:11I said in my excess: Every man is a liar.
Proverbs 29:20Hast thou seen a man hasty to speak? folly is rather to be looked for, than his amendment.
Jeremiah 20:9Then I said: I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name: and there came in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was wearied, not being able 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 →