Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
Job 20:2 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. 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 he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: