Job 20:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לָ֭כֵן שְׂעִפַּ֣י יְשִׁיב֑וּנִי וּ֝בַעֲב֗וּר ח֣וּשִׁי בִֽי׃

Transliteration

lākēn śĕʿippay yĕšîbûnî û- baʿăbûr ḥûšî bî

Grammar Details

• *lākēn*: adverb - therefore/for this reason
• *śĕʿippay*: noun, masculine plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - my thoughts/disquieting thoughts
• *yĕšîbûnî*: hifil imperfect, 3rd masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - they cause me to answer
• *û-*: conjunction - and
• *baʿăbûr*: preposition - because of
• *ḥûšî*: noun, masculine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my haste/agitation
• *bî*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - in me

Word Meanings

• *śĕʿippay*: my thoughts/my disquieting thoughts/my concerns
• *yĕšîbûnî*: they answer me/they cause me to reply/they compel me to respond
• *ḥûšî*: my haste/my agitation/my eagerness/my feeling

Referenced Verses

• Job 4:2 : 2 If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
• Job 13:19 : 19 Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.
• Job 20:3 : 3 I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me.
• Job 32:13-20 : 13 Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man: 14 For he hath not directed his words against me; Neither will I answer him with your speeches. 15 They are amazed, they answer no more: They have not a word to say. 16 And shall I wait, because they speak not, Because they stand still, and answer no more? 17 I also will answer my part, I also will show mine opinion. 18 For I am full of words; The spirit within me constraineth me. 19 Behold, my breast is as wine which hath no vent; Like new wine-skins it is ready to burst. 20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.
• Ps 31:22 : 22 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.
• Ps 39:2-3 : 2 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:
• Ps 116:11 : 11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
• Prov 14:29 : 29 He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; But he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
• Prov 29:20 : 20 Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
• Eccl 7:9 : 9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
• Jer 20:9 : 9 And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot [contain].
• Mark 6:25 : 25 And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou forthwith give me on a platter the head of John the Baptist.
• Rom 10:2 : 2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
• Jas 1:19 : 19 Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: