Job 20:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Job 4:2 : 2 If we attempt to speak with you, will you 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 keep silent, I shall die.
  • Job 20:3 : 3 I have heard the rebuke of my dishonor, and the spirit of my understanding prompts me to respond.
  • Job 32:13-20 : 13 Lest you should say, We have found out wisdom: God will thrust him down, not man. 14 Now he has not directed his words against me, nor will I answer him with your speeches. 15 They were amazed; they answered no more; they stopped speaking. 16 When I had waited, for they did not speak but stood still and answered no more, 17 I said, I will answer my part also, I also will show my opinion. 18 For I am full of words; the spirit within me compels me. 19 Behold, my belly is like wine that has no outlet; it is ready to burst like new wineskins. 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 your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.
  • Ps 39:2-3 : 2 I was silent and still, I held my peace even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. 3 My heart burned within me, while I was musing, the fire burned: then I spoke with my tongue,
  • Ps 116:11 : 11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
  • Prov 14:29 : 29 He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who is quick-tempered exalts folly.
  • Prov 29:20 : 20 Do you see a man hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
  • Eccl 7:9 : 9 Do not be quick in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak anymore in his name. But his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with holding back, and I could not stay.
  • Mark 6:25 : 25 And she came in straightway with haste to the king, and asked, saying, I want you to give me at once 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 Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:

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