Verse 2

“This is why my troubled thoughts bring me back– because of my feelings within me.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:2 : 2 “If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?
  • Job 13:19 : 19 Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.
  • Job 20:3 : 3 When I hear a reproof that dishonors me, then my understanding prompts me to answer.
  • Job 32:13-20 : 13 So do not say,‘We have found wisdom! God will refute him, not man!’ 14 Job has not directed his words to me, and so I will not reply to him with your arguments. 15 Job’s Friends Failed to Answer“They are dismayed and cannot answer any more; they have nothing left to say. 16 And I have waited. But because they do not speak, because they stand there and answer no more, 17 I too will answer my part, I too will explain what I know. 18 For I am full of words, and the spirit within me constrains me. 19 Inside I am like wine which has no outlet, like new wineskins ready to burst! 20 I will speak, so that I may find relief; I will open my lips, so that I may answer.
  • Ps 31:22 : 22 I jumped to conclusions and said,“I am cut off from your presence!” But you heard my plea for mercy when I cried out to you for help.
  • Ps 39:2-3 : 2 I was stone silent; I held back the urge to speak. My frustration grew; 3 my anxiety intensified. As I thought about it, I became impatient. Finally I spoke these words:
  • Ps 116:11 : 11 I rashly declared,“All men are liars.”
  • Prov 14:29 : 29 Someone with great understanding is slow to anger, but the one who has a quick temper exalts folly.
  • Prov 29:20 : 20 You have seen someone who is hasty in his words– there is more hope for a fool than for him.
  • Eccl 7:9 : 9 Do not let yourself be quickly provoked, for anger resides in the lap of fools.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 Sometimes I think,“I will make no mention of his message. I will not speak as his messenger any more.” But then his message becomes like a fire locked up inside of me, burning in my heart and soul. I grow weary of trying to hold it in; I cannot contain it.
  • Mark 6:25 : 25 Immediately she hurried back to the king and made her request:“I want the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”
  • Rom 10:2 : 2 For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not in line with the truth.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 Living Out the Message Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.