Job 20:2

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.

Cross References

Proverbs 14:29

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

Psalm 31:22

I had said in my alarm, “I am driven far from thy sight.” But thou didst hear my supplications, when I cried to thee for help.

James 1:19

Know this, my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

Romans 10:2

I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but it is not enlightened.

Mark 6:25

And she came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, saying, “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,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

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

Proverbs 29:20

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

Psalm 116:11

I said in my consternation, “Men are all a vain hope.”

Job 20:3

I hear censure which insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.

Job 13:19

Who is there that 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? Yet who can keep from speaking?

Job 20:1

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered: