Job 20:2

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:2 : 2 "If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
  • Job 13:19 : 19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
  • Job 20:3 : 3 I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
  • Job 32:13-20 : 13 Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;' 14 for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches. 15 "They are amazed. They answer no more. They don't have a word to say. 16 Shall I wait, because they don't speak, because they stand still, and answer no more? 17 I also will answer my part, and I also will show my opinion. 18 For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me. 19 Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins 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 your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
  • Ps 39:2-3 : 2 I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred. 3 My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: 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 has a quick temper displays 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 Don't be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 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 can't [contain].
  • Mark 6:25 : 25 She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter."
  • Rom 10:2 : 2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

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