Berean Standard Bible
Job 20:2
2“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.
Job 20:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
- New International Version (NIV)“My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Therefore my anxious thoughts make me answer, Because of the turmoil within me.
Context of Job 20:2
1Then Zophar the Naamathite replied: “So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me. 3I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply. 4Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,
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לָ֭כֵן שְׂעִפַּ֣י יְשִׁיב֑וּנִי וּ֝בַעֲב֗וּר ח֣וּשִׁי בִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 20:2
- Job 20:3I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
- Job 4:2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
- Job 13:19Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.
- Job 32:13So do not claim, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.’
- Psalms 39:2I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.
- Jeremiah 20:9If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
- Romans 10:2For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.
- Psalms 31:22In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
- Psalms 116:11In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”
- Proverbs 14:29A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.
- Proverbs 29:20Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- Ecclesiastes 7:9Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
- Mark 6:25At once the girl hurried back to the king with her request: “I want you to give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”
- James 1:19My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
Commentaries on Job 20:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Therefore do my thoughts - It has already been observed that Zophar was the most inveterate of all Job's enemies, for we really must cease to call them friends. He sets no bounds to his invective, and outrages every rule of charity. A man of such a bitter spirit must have been, in general, very unhappy. With him Job is, by insinuation, every thing that is base, vile, and hypocritical. Mr. Good translates this verse thus: "Whither would my tumult transport…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Therefore - לכן lākên “certainly, truly.” In view of what has been just said. Or perhaps the word means merely certainly, truly. Do my thoughts cause me to answer - This is variously rendered. The Vulgate renders it, Idcirco cogitationes meae variae succedunt sibi, et mens in diversa rapitur - “Therefore my various thoughts follow in succession, and the mind is distracted.” The Septuagint, “I did not suppose that thou wouldst speak against these things…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-29SECOND SERIES. 2. Therefore--Rather, the more excited I feel by Job's speech, the more for that very reason shall my reply be supplied by my calm consideration. Literally, "Notwithstanding; my calm thoughts (as in Job 4:13) shall furnish my answer, because of the excitement (haste) within me" [Umbreit].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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