Job 20:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Listen! My thoughts urge me to answer because of the agitation within me.

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King 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.

Job 20:2 Cross References

Job 13:19

Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.

Job 20:1

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

Job 20:3

I hear censure that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.

Job 4:2

“If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? But who can keep from speaking?

Psalm 116:11

I said in my consternation, “Everyone is a liar.”

Psalm 31:22

I had said in my alarm, “I am driven far from your sight.” But you heard my supplications when I cried out to you for help.

Proverbs 14:29

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but one who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverbs 29:20

Do you see someone who is hasty in speech? There is more hope for a fool than for anyone like that.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not be quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.

Jeremiah 20:9

If I say, “I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,” then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.

Mark 6:25

Immediately she rushed back to the king and requested, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”

Romans 10:2

For I can testify that they have a zeal for God, but it is not based on knowledge.

James 1:19

You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,