Job 20:2
New Revised Standard Version
“Pay attention! My thoughts urge me to answer, because of the agitation within me.

Contemporary English Version
Your words are disturbing; now I must speak.

New American Bible
So now my thoughts provide an answer for me, because of the feelings within me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.

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Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.

my thoughts

Job 20:3 The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.

Job 4:2 If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill; but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?

Job 13:19 Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?

Job 32:13-20 Lest you should say: We have found wisdom, God hath cast him down, not man. . . .

Psalm 39:2,3 I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed. . . .

Jeremiah 20:9 Then I said: I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name: and there came in my heart as a burning fire, shut up in my bones, and I was wearied, not being able to bear it.

Romans 10:2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

and for

Psalm 31:22 But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.

Psalm 116:11 I said in my excess: Every man is a liar.

Proverbs 14:29 He that is patient, is governed with much wisdom: but he that is impatient, exalteth his folly.

Proverbs 29:20 Hast thou seen a man hasty to speak? folly is rather to be looked for, than his amendment.

Ecclesiastes 7:9 Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.

Mark 6:25 And when she was come in immediately with haste to the king, she asked, saying: I will that forthwith thou give me in a dish, the head of John the Baptist.

James 1:19 You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger.

I make haste.

Context
Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
1Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said: 2Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.3The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.…
Cross References
Job 20:1
Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:

Job 20:3
The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.

Job 20:1
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