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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste 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 anxious thoughts make me answer, Because of the turmoil within me. 3I have heard the rebuke that reproaches me, And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer. 4“Do you not know this 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 have heard the rebuke that reproaches me, And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.
• Job 4:2“If one attempts a word with you, will you become weary? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
• Job 13:19Who is he who will contend with me? If now I hold my tongue, I perish.
• Job 32:13Lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom’; God will vanquish him, not man.
• Psalms 39:2I was mute with silence, I held my peace even from good; And my sorrow was stirred up.
• Jeremiah 20:9Then I said, “I will not make mention of Him, Nor speak anymore in His name.” But His word was in my heart like a burning fire Shut up in my bones; I was weary of holding it back, And I could not.
• Romans 10:2For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
• Psalms 31:22For I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before Your eyes”; Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications When I cried out to You.
• Psalms 116:11I said in my haste, “All men are liars.”
• Proverbs 14:29He who is slow to wrath has great understanding, But he who is impulsive exalts folly.
• Proverbs 29:20Do you see a man hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
• Ecclesiastes 7:9Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry, For anger rests in the bosom of fools.
• Mark 6:25Immediately she came in 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 1:19So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

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