Job 20:2
I did not suppose that thou wouldest answer thus: neither do ye understand more than I.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
In Context
1Then Sophar the Minæan answered and said,
3I will hear my shameful reproach; and the spirit of my understanding answers me.
Cross References
Job 4:2Hast thou been often spoken to in distress? but who shall endure the force of thy words?
Job 20:3I will hear my shameful reproach; and the spirit of my understanding answers me.
Proverbs 29:20If thou see a man hasty in his words, know that the fool has hope rather than he.
Jeremiah 20:9Then I said, I will by no means name the name of the Lord, and I will no more at all speak in his name. But it was as burning fire flaming in my bones, and I am utterly weakened on all sides, and cannot bear up.
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 →