Job 20:2
“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.
World English 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,
3I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
Cross References
Job 4:2“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
Job 20:3I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
Psalms 31:22As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
Psalms 116:11I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”
Proverbs 29:20Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Jeremiah 20:9If I say that I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.
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 →