Verse 2

Therefore, my disquieting thoughts compel me to respond, and because of my agitation within me,

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  • Job 4:2 : 2 If someone attempts to speak with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
  • Job 13:19 : 19 Who can contend with me? For now, if I am silent, I will perish.
  • Job 20:3 : 3 I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding prompts me to reply.
  • Job 32:13-20 : 13 Do not say, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not a man, refute him.’ 14 But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments. 15 They are dismayed and have no more to say; words have left them. 16 Should I wait, now that they are not speaking and they stand there without replying any longer? 17 I too will give my answer; I will express my opinion as well. 18 For I am full of words, and the spirit within me compels me. 19 Inside me, my heart is like wine that has no vent, ready to burst like new wineskins. 20 Let me speak so that I may find relief; let me open my lips and answer.
  • Ps 31:22 : 22 Blessed be the LORD, for he has shown his wondrous love to me in a fortified city.
  • Ps 39:2-3 : 2 I said, 'I will guard my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will keep a muzzle on my mouth while the wicked are in my presence.' 3 I was silent in stillness; I held my peace even from good, but my sorrow was stirred up.
  • Ps 116:11 : 11 I said in my alarm, 'All mankind are liars.'
  • Prov 14:29 : 29 Whoever is patient shows great understanding, but a quick-tempered person promotes folly.
  • Prov 29:20 : 20 Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
  • Eccl 7:9 : 9 Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 But if I say, 'I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,' His word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.
  • Mark 6:25 : 25 At once the girl hurried in to the king with her request. 'I want you to give me, right now, the head of John the Baptist on a platter,' she said.
  • Rom 10:2 : 2 I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but it is not based on true knowledge.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 My beloved brothers and sisters, let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger.