Verse 2

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

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, 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 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: