Job 20:2

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.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Therefore my anxious thoughts make me answer, Because of the turmoil within me.
• New Living Translation (NLT)“I must reply because I am greatly disturbed.

Context of Job 20:2

1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said: "Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me. 3I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me. 4Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed on earth,

Job 20:2 word by word

לָ֭כֵן שְׂעִפַּ֣י יְשִׁיב֑וּנִי וּ֝בַעֲב֗וּר ח֣וּשִׁי בִֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Therefore do my thoughtsשְׂעִפִּיםsâ‛iph ώâ‛iph · disquietingsH5587
• cause me to answerשׁוּבshûb · to return: replyH7725
• I make hasteחוּשׁchûsh · to hastenH2363

Cross-references for Job 20:2

• Job 20:3I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.
• Job 4:2"If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?
• Job 13:19Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
• Job 32:13Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not a man.'
• Psalms 39:2I was mute and silent; I held my peace to no avail, and my distress grew worse.
• Jeremiah 20:9If I say, "I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name," there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.
• Romans 10:2For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
• Psalms 31:22I had said in my alarm, "I am cut off from your sight." But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.
• Psalms 116:11I said in my alarm, "All mankind are liars."
• Proverbs 14:29Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
• Proverbs 29:20Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
• Ecclesiastes 7:9Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.
• Mark 6:25And she came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, saying, "I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter."
• James 1:19Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, 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

In the dictionaries

• Rain
• Short
• Haste
• Reason; Reasonable; Reasoning
• Zophar

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