Job 20:2 · KJV
“Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for {this} I make haste. {I make...: Heb. my haste is in me}”
— Job 20:2
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
Job 20 — Context
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for {this} I make haste. {I make...: Heb. my haste is in me}
3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
4Knowest thou {not} this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
Cross References
Proverbs 14:29
{He that is} slow to wrath {is} of great understanding: but {he that is} hasty of spirit exalteth folly. {hasty...: Heb. short of spirit}
Psalms 31:22
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.
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Mark 6:25
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.
Psalms 39:2-3
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, {even} from good; and my sorrow was stirred. {stirred: Heb. troubled}
Jeremiah 20:9
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}.
James 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Proverbs 29:20
Seest thou a man {that is} hasty in his words? {there is} more hope of a fool than of him. {words: or, matters?}