Job 20:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 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 we 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 plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
• Job 20:3 : 3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
• Job 32:13-20 : 13 Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man. 14 Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches. 15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking. 16 When I had waited,(for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;) 17 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion. 18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. 19 Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles. 20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
• Ps 31:22 : 22 For 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{H8689)}, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred{H8738)}. 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned{H8799)}: then spake{H8765)} 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 wrath 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 Then 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.
• Mark 6:25 : 25 And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
• Rom 10:2 : 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
• Jas 1:19 : 19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: