Job 20:2
Not so, do my thoughts answer me, and to this end, is my haste within me:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
In Context
1Then responded Zophar the Naamathite, and said:—
Cross References
Job 4:2If one attempt a word unto thee, wilt thou be impatient? But, to restrain speech, who, can endure?
Job 20:3The correction meant to confound me, I must hear, but, the spirit—out of my understanding, will give me a reply.
Psalms 31:22But, I, had said in mine alarm, I am cut off from before thine eyes,—But, indeed, thou didst hear the voice of my supplication, when I cried for help unto thee.
Psalms 116:11I, said in mine alarm, All men, are false!
Proverbs 29:20Thou hast seen a man hasty in his words,—there is, more hope of a dullard, than of him.
Jeremiah 20:9Therefore I say—I will not mention him Neither will I speak any more in his name, But then it becometh in my heart as a fire that burneth, Shut up in my bones,—And I am weary of restraint and 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 →