Job 20:2

New International Version

“My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed.

Cross References

Job 13:19

Can anyone bring charges against me? If so, I will be silent and die.

Job 20:1

Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

Job 20:3

I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding inspires me to reply.

Job 4:2

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

Psalm 116:11

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

Psalm 31:22

In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from your sight!” Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help.

Proverbs 14:29

Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.

Proverbs 29:20

Do you see someone who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for them.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.

Jeremiah 20:9

But if I say, “I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name,” his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.

Mark 6:25

At once the girl hurried in to the king with the request: “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”

Romans 10:2

For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.

James 1:19

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,