Job 20:2 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

² Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, And for this I make haste.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and I make haste [to offer it] for this reason.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me.

Common English Bible

² Therefore, my troubled thoughts make me turn back— because of my inner turmoil.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² 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

² 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 he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

Job 20:1

Then answered Zophar the Na´amathite, and said,

Job 20:3

I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

Job 4:2

If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

Psalm 116:11

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Psalm 31:22

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

Proverbs 14:29

He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

Proverbs 29:20

Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Jeremiah 20:9

Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

Mark 6:25

And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.

Romans 10:2

For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

James 1:19

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: