Job 20:2

In 11 translations

BSB

“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.

KJV

Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.I make…: Heb. my haste is in me

WEB

“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

ASV

Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me.

LSV

“Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, || And because of my sensations in me.

YLT

Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.

DBY

Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.

DRC

Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.

GNV

Doubtlesse my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.

JPS

Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of mine agitation that is in me.

LXXE

I did not suppose that thou wouldest answer thus: neither do ye understand more than I.

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WLC

לָ֭כֵן שְׂעִפַּ֣י יְשִׁיב֑וּנִי וּ֝בַעֲב֗וּר ח֣וּשִׁי בִֽי׃

LXX-Br

Οὐχ οὕτως ὑπελάμβανον ἀντερεῖν σε ταῦτα, καὶ οὐχὶ συνίετε μᾶλλον ἢ καὶ ἐγώ.

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• 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.
• Proverbs 14:29A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.
• Psalms 39:2–3I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred. My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
• Job 20:3I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
• Job 13:19Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.
• 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.”
• Psalms 116:11In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”
• James 1:19My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
• 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.
• Ecclesiastes 7:9Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
• Job 32:13–20So do not claim, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.’ But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments. Job’s friends are dismayed, with no more to say;…
• Romans 10:2For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.
• Job 4:2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
• Proverbs 29:20Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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