Job 20:2
“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.
BSB
ASV
Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me.
KJV
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
Ver. 1. Therefore do my thoughts changefully succeed one another, and my mind is transported diverse ways. [LITERAL INTERPRETATION] 1. As though he said in plain words; 'Because I see the terribleness of the last Judgment, therefore I am confounded in a state of consternation by the tumults of my thoughts.' For the mind spreads itself wider in its range of thought, the more it considers how dreadful that is which threatens it.
Therefore do my thoughts - It has already been observed that Zophar was the most inveterate of all Job’s enemies, for we really must cease to call them friends. He sets no bounds to his invective, and outrages every rule of charity. A man of such a bitter spirit must have been, in general, very unhappy. With him Job is, by insinuation, every thing that is base, vile, and hypocritical. Mr. Good translates this verse thus: “Whither would my tumult transport me? And how far my agitation within me?” This is all the modesty that appears in Zophar’s discourse.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Jeremiah 20:9If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of…
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My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.
For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
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Proverbs 14:29A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man promotes folly.
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My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
A quick-tempered man acts foolishly, and a devious man is hated.
A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.