Job 20:2
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
Updated King James Version
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 the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.
Cross References
Job 4:2If we analyse to commune with you, will you be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
Job 20:3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.
Psalms 31:22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before yours eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried unto you.
Psalms 116:11I said in my haste, All men are liars.
Proverbs 29:20See you a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Jeremiah 20:9Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up 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 →