Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
Job 20:2 - English Standard Version 2016 “Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, And for this I make haste. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and I make haste [to offer it] for this reason. American Standard Version (1901) Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me. Common English Bible Therefore, my troubled thoughts make me turn back— because of my inner turmoil. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things. |
Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?
I had said in my alarm, “I am cut off from your sight.” But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.
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.
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.”
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;