Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For this my thoughts will turn back, and because of my haste in me.
New American Standard Bible
Even because of my
King James Version
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
Holman Bible
because I am upset!
International Standard Version
"Therefore my anxious thoughts cause me to answer because I'm agitated within me.
A Conservative Version
Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, even because of my haste that is in me.
American Standard Version
Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me.
Amplified
“Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me answer,
Because of the uneasiness that is within me.
Bible in Basic English
For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.
Darby Translation
Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.
King James 2000
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Therefore my disquieting thoughts bring me back {for the sake of} my inward excitement.
Modern King James verseion
Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, even because of my haste in me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"For the same cause do my thoughts compel me to answer. And why? My mind is tossed here and there.
NET Bible
"This is why my troubled thoughts bring me back -- because of my feelings within me.
New Heart English Bible
"Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.
The Emphasized Bible
Not so, do my thoughts answer me, and to this end, is my haste within me:
Webster
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
World English Bible
"Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.
Youngs Literal Translation
Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 20:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Zophar's Second Speech
1 And the Naainathite will answer and say, 2 For this my thoughts will turn back, and because of my haste in me. 3 I shall hear the instruction of my shame, and the spirit of my understanding will cause me to answer.
Names
Cross References
Job 4:2
Trying the word to thee shalt thou be weary? who shall be able to with hold in speaking?
Job 13:19
Who is he will contend with me? for now shall I be silent and expire;
Job 20:3
I shall hear the instruction of my shame, and the spirit of my understanding will cause me to answer.
Job 32:13-20
Lest ye shall say, We found wisdom: God will thrust him, not man.
Psalm 31:22
And I said in my hasty flight; I was cut off from before thine eyes: yet thou heardest the voice of my supplications in my crying to thee.
Psalm 39:2-3
I was dumb with silence, I was silent from good, and my pain was moved.
Psalm 116:11
I said in my alarm, Every man a lie.
Proverbs 14:29
The slow to anger of much understanding: and the short of spirit exalts folly.
Proverbs 29:20
Thou sawest a man hasty in his words: hope to the foolish one more than to him.
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Thou shalt not be hastened in thy spirit to be angry, for anger shall rest in the bosom of fools.
Jeremiah 20:9
And I said, I will not bring him to remembrance, and I will no more speak in his name. And it was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was wearied to endure, and I shall not be able.
Mark 6:25
And having come quickly with haste to the king, she asked, saying, I wish that thou wouldest give me by itself, upon a board, the head of John the Immerser.
Romans 10:2
For I testify for them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
James 1:19
Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger: