Job 20:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

Job 20:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 14:29
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Psalms 31:22
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
Job 20:3
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
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 the Baptist.
Romans 10:2
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Here, I. Zophar begins very passionately, and seems to be in a great heat at what Job had said. Being resolved to condemn Job for a bad man, he was much displeased that he talked so like a good man, and, as it should seem, broke in upon him, and began abruptly (Job 20:2): Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer. He takes no notice of what Job had said to move their pity, or to evidence his own…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

SECOND SERIES. Job 20:1-29. Reply of Zophar. 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].