Who is there that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
Job 20:2 - New Revised Standard Version “Pay attention! My thoughts urge me to answer, because of the agitation 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 that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
I hear censure that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? But who can keep from speaking?
I had said in my alarm, “I am driven far from your sight.” But you heard my supplications when I cried out to you for help.
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but one who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Do you see someone who is hasty in speech? There is more hope for a fool than for anyone like that.
If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.
Immediately she rushed back to the king and requested, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”
I can testify that they have a zeal for God, but it is not enlightened.
You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger;