Job 20:2
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Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.
In other translations
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.
Hebrew words
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- Proverbs 14:29He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.
- Psalm 31:22For 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.In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
- Job 13:19Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.
- James 1:19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
- Psalm 39:2-32 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,2 I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred. 3 My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
- Ecclesiastes 7:9Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
- Psalm 116:11I said in my haste, All men are liars.In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”
- Jeremiah 20:9Then 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.If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
- Job 4:2If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
- Job 20:3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
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