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

² “Listen! My thoughts urge me to answer because of the agitation within me.

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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.

Job 20:2 Cross References

Proverbs 14:29

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

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.

James 1:19

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

Romans 10:2

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

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.”

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

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

Proverbs 29:20

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

Psalm 116:11

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

Job 20:3

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

Job 13:19

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

Job 4:2

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

Job 20:1

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered: