Job 20:2
For this do my thoughts lead me to reply, And for this is my ardor within me.
Noyes Bible
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 Naamathite, and said:
3I have heard my shameful rebuke; And the spirit, from my understanding, answereth for me.
Cross References
Job 4:2If one attempt a word with thee, wilt thou be offended? But who can refrain from speaking?
Job 20:3I have heard my shameful rebuke; And the spirit, from my understanding, answereth for me.
Psalms 31:22I said in my distress, “I am cut off from before thine eyes;” But thou didst hear the voice of my supplication, When I cried unto thee.
Psalms 116:11I said in my distress, “All men are liars.”
Proverbs 29:20Seest thou a man hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
Jeremiah 20:9So I say, I will no more make mention of him, Nor speak any more in his name; But his word is in my heart like a burning fire, shut up in my bones, And I am weary with forbearing, And I cannot refrain.
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 →