Job 20:2 "My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed.

◄ Job 20:2 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
"My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed.

English Standard Version
“Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.

New American Standard Bible
"Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me respond, Even because of my inward agitation.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is why my unsettling thoughts compel me to answer, because I am upset!

International Standard Version
"Therefore my anxious thoughts cause me to answer because I'm agitated within me.

American Standard Version
Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me.

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

Darby Bible Translation
Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.

Young's Literal Translation
Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

20:1-9 Zophar's discourse is upon the certain misery of the wicked. The triumph of the wicked and the joy of the hypocrite are fleeting. The pleasures and gains of sin bring disease and pain; they end in remorse, anguish, and ruin. Dissembled piety is double iniquity, and the ruin that attends it will be accordingly.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2. Therefore—Rather, the more excited I feel by Job's speech, the more for that very reason shall my reply be supplied by my calm consideration. Literally, "Notwithstanding; my calm thoughts (as in Job 4:13) shall furnish my answer, because of the excitement (haste) within me" [Umbreit].