Who is he that will contend with me? For now shall I hold my peace and give up the ghost.
Job 20:2 - Revised Version 1885 Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in 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 he that will contend with me? For now shall I hold my peace and give up the ghost.
I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame, And the spirit of my understanding answereth me.
If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
As for me, 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 anger 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.
And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in mine heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot contain.
And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou forthwith give me in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Ye know this, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: