Job 20:2 - Revised Standard Version CI “Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, And for this I make haste. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and I make haste [to offer it] for this reason. American Standard Version (1901) Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me. Common English Bible Therefore, my troubled thoughts make me turn back— because of my inner turmoil. Catholic Public Domain Version In response, various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind moves quickly through different ideas. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things. |
I hear censure which insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? Yet who can keep from speaking?
I had said in my alarm, “I am driven far from thy sight.” But thou didst hear my supplications, when I cried to thee for help.
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
If 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.
And 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.”
I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but it is not enlightened.
Know this, my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,