Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"For the same cause do my thoughts compel me to answer. And why? My mind is tossed here and there.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
For this my thoughts will turn back, and because of my haste in 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.
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 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, 2 "For the same cause do my thoughts compel me to answer. And why? My mind is tossed here and there. 3 I have sufficiently heard thy checking and reproof; therefore am I purposed to make answer after mine understanding.
Names
Cross References
Job 4:2
"If we begin to commune with thee, peradventure thou wilt be discontent; but who can withhold himself from speaking?
Job 13:19
What is he that will go to law with me? For if I hold my tongue, I shall die.
Job 20:3
I have sufficiently heard thy checking and reproof; therefore am I purposed to make answer after mine understanding.
Job 32:13-20
lest ye should praise yourselves, to have found out wisdom: because it is God that hath cast him out, and no man.
Psalm 31:22
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.
Psalm 39:2-3
I held my tongue; I was dumb. I kept silence, yea even from good words, but it was pain and grief to me.
Psalm 116:11
I said in my haste, "All men are liars."
Proverbs 14:29
Patience is a token of wisdom; but wrath and hasty displeasure is a token of foolishness.
Proverbs 29:20
If thou seest a man that is hasty to speak unadvised; thou mayest trust a fool more than him.
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Be not hastily angry in thy mind, for wrath resteth in the bosom of a fool.
Jeremiah 20:9
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.
Mark 6:25
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."
Romans 10:2
For I bear them record, that they have a fervent mind to Godward, but not according to knowledge.
James 1:19
Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.