Job 20:2
Doubtlesse my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 saide,
Cross References
Job 4:2If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? but who can withholde himselfe from speaking?
Job 20:3I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.
Psalms 31:22Though I said in mine haste, I am cast out of thy sight, yet thou heardest the voyce of my prayer, when I cryed vnto thee.
Psalms 116:11I said in my feare, All men are lyers.
Proverbs 29:20Seest thou a man hastie in his matters? there is more hope of a foole, then of him.
Jeremiah 20:9Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speake any more in his Name. But his worde was in mine heart as a burning fire shut vp in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
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 →