Job 20:2

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Job 13:19

Who is he who will plead with me? For now, if I hold my tongue, I will give up my breath.

Job 20:1

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

Job 20:3

I have heard the rebuke that disgraces me, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.

Job 4:2

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

Psalm 116:11

I said in my alarm, “All men are liars.”

Psalm 31:22

For I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before Your eyes.” Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications when I cried out to You.

Proverbs 14:29

He who is slow to anger is of great understanding, but he who is hasty in temper exalts folly.

Proverbs 29:20

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not be quick in your spirit to be angry, for anger settles in the bosom of fools.

Jeremiah 20:9

But if I say, “I will not make mention of Him nor speak anymore in His name,” then His word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; and I was weary of forbearing it, and I could not endure it.

Mark 6:25

She came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, “I want you to give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter at once.”

Romans 10:2

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

James 1:19

Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,