Job 20:2
“My thoughts make me answer quickly 1 because of the worry that is in me. 1
Unlocked Literal 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 answered and said, 1
3I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, 1 but a spirit from my understanding answers me. 1
Cross References
Job 4:2If anyone tries to speak with you, will you be impatient? 1 But who can stop himself from speaking? 1
Job 20:3I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, 1 but a spirit from my understanding answers me. 1
Psalms 31:22Though I said in my haste, 1 “I am cut off from your eyes,” 1 yet you heard my plea for help 1 when I cried to you. 1
Psalms 116:11In my confusion I said, 1 “All men are liars.” 1
Proverbs 29:20See a man who is hasty in his words? 1 There is more hope for a fool than for him. 1
Jeremiah 20:9If I say, 'I will not think about Yahweh anymore. I will not speak any longer in his name.' 1 Then it is like a fire in my heart, held within my bones. So I struggle to contain it but I cannot. 1
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 →