Job 20:2
“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.
Berean Standard Bible
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 replied:
3I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
Cross References
Job 4:2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
Job 20:3I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
Psalms 31:22In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
Psalms 116:11In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”
Proverbs 29:20Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Jeremiah 20:9If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
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 →