Job 20:2
“I'm forced to reply because I'm really upset!
Free Bible 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 and said,
3What I hear you say insults me, but I know how to reply to you!
Cross References
Job 4:2“Could I say a word? I don't want to upset you but who could keep quiet and not respond?
Job 20:3What I hear you say insults me, but I know how to reply to you!
Psalms 31:22Terrified I cried out, “I am being destroyed right in front of you!” But you heard my cry when I called out for you to help me.
Psalms 116:11I was so upset that I said, “Everyone's a liar!”
Proverbs 29:20Have you seen a man who speaks without thinking? There's more hope for stupid people than for him!
Jeremiah 20:9If I tell myself, “I won't talk about him anymore, I won't even mention his name,” then his message is like a fire trapped within me, burning me from the inside out. I'm getting tired of holding it in. I just can't win.
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 →