Job 20:2
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New International Version (©1984)
"My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"I must reply because I am greatly disturbed.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me respond, Even because of my inward agitation.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"My disturbing thoughts make me answer, and because of them I am upset.

King James Bible
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

American King James Version
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

American Standard Version
Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me.

Bible in Basic English
For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.

Darby Bible Translation
Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.

English Revised Version
Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

World English Bible
"Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

Young's Literal Translation
Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.

Geneva Study Bible

Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

Wesley's Notes

20:2 Therefore - For this thy severe sentence. Make haste - I speak sooner than I intended. And possibly interrupted Job, when he was proceeding in his discourse.

King James Translators' Notes

I make...: Heb. my haste is in me

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. Therefore-Rather, the more excited I feel by Job's speech, the more for that very reason shall my reply be supplied by my calm consideration. Literally, "Notwithstanding; my calm thoughts (as in Job 4:13) shall furnish my answer, because of the excitement (haste) within me" [Umbreit].

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

20:1-9 Zophar's discourse is upon the certain misery of the wicked. The triumph of the wicked and the joy of the hypocrite are fleeting. The pleasures and gains of sin bring disease and pain; they end in remorse, anguish, and ruin. Dissembled piety is double iniquity, and the ruin that attends it will be accordingly.


Job 20:1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
Job 20:3 "I listened to the reproof which insults me, And the spirit of my understanding makes me answer. (NASB ©1995)

Agitation Cause Disquieting Disturbed Driving Greatly Haste Inward Prompt Reason Respond Thoughts Troubled Troubling Within

Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

my thoughts 3 4:2 13:19 32:13-20 Ps 39:2,3 Jer 20:9 Ro 10:2

and for Ps 31:22 116:11 Pr 14:29 29:20 Ec 7:9 Mr 6:25 Jas 1:19

I make haste. Heb. my haste is in me

Bible Gateway: Job Chapter 20 Verse 2 NIV ESV NKJV NLT KJV Message Amplified

Alphabetical: agitation am answer because disquieting disturbed Even greatly I inward make me My of prompt respond Therefore thoughts to troubled

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