Job 32:20

I will speak, that I may open my lips and relieve myself. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.

In Context

19And my belly is as a skin of sweet wine bound up and ready to burst; 1 Or as a brazier’s laboring bellows. 1

21For truly I will not be awed because of man, 1 Nor indeed will I be confounded before a mortal. 1

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Cross References

Job 4:2Hast thou been often spoken to in distress? 1 But who shall endure the force of thy words? 1

Job 13:19For who is he that shall plead with me, 1 That I should now be silent, and expire? 1

Job 21:3Raise me, and I will speak; 1 Then ye shall not laugh me to scorn. 1

Matthew Henry on Job 32:16-22

15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking. 16 When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;) 17 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will show mine opinion. 18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. 19 Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles. 20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer. 21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me… Read the whole commentary →

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