Job 20:2

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Summary

Job 20:2

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

My thoughts

Romans 10:2

And for

James 1:19

Bible References

My thoughts

I have sufficiently heard thy checking and reproof; therefore am I purposed to make answer after mine understanding.

"If we begin to commune with thee, peradventure thou wilt be discontent; but who can withhold himself from speaking?

What is he that will go to law with me? For if I hold my tongue, I shall die.

lest ye should praise yourselves, to have found out wisdom: because it is God that hath cast him out, and no man.

I held my tongue; I was dumb. I kept silence, yea even from good words, but it was pain and grief to me.

Wherefore, I thought from henceforth not to speak of him, nor to preach anymore in his name. But the word of the LORD was a very burning fire in my heart and in my bones, which when I would have stopped, I might not.

For I bear them record, that they have a fervent mind to Godward, but not according to knowledge.

And for

And when I made haste, I said, "I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes." Nevertheless, thou heardest the voice of my prayer, when I cried unto thee.

I said in my haste, "All men are liars."

Patience is a token of wisdom; but wrath and hasty displeasure is a token of foolishness.

If thou seest a man that is hasty to speak unadvised; thou mayest trust a fool more than him.

Be not hastily angry in thy mind, for wrath resteth in the bosom of a fool.

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 Baptist."

Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.