Job 20:2
Even therefore do my inmost thoughts give me an answer, and for this reason do I feel a strong excitement within me.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
In Context
1Then answered Zophar the Na'amathite, and said,
Cross References
Job 4:2If we essay to address a word to thee, wilt thou be wearied? yet who is able to refrain from speaking?
Job 20:3Reproof which casteth shame on me must I hear; yet out of my understanding will the spirit give me an answer.
Psalms 31:22(31:23) And yet had I said in my despondency, I am cut off from before thy eyes: nevertheless thou didst hear the voice of my supplications when I cried loudly unto thee.
Psalms 116:11I indeed said in my despondency, Every man is a liar.
Proverbs 29:20Seest then a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope for a fool than for him.
Jeremiah 20:9And I thought, I will not make mention of him, and I will not speak any more in his name. But it became in my heart as a burning fire enclosed within my bones, and I was weary with enduring, and I could not overcome 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 →