Bible verse

Job 20:2

“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.

Job 20:2 · BSB

Job 20:2 in context

The verses around it, from Job 20.

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

2 “So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.

3 I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.

4 Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,

5 the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

6 Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

Read all of Job 20

Job 20:2 in other translations

KJV

Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for [this] I make haste.

ASV

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

ERV

Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

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