Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
because I am upset!
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.
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.
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
Then Zophar the Naamathite
because I am upset!
and my understanding
Names
Cross References
Job 4:2
when you are exhausted?
Yet who can keep from speaking?
Job 13:19
If so, I will be silent and die.
Job 20:3
and my understanding
Job 32:13-20
let God deal with him, not man.”
Psalm 31:22
“I am cut off from Your sight.”
But You heard the sound of my pleading
when I cried to You for help.
Psalm 39:2-3
I kept silent, even from speaking good,
and my pain intensified.
Psalm 116:11
“Everyone is a liar.”
Proverbs 14:29
but a quick-tempered one promotes foolishness.
Proverbs 29:20
There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Ecclesiastes 7:9
for anger abides in the heart of fools.
Jeremiah 20:9
or speak any longer in His name,”
His message becomes a fire burning in my heart,
shut up in my bones.
I become tired of holding it in,
and I cannot prevail.
Mark 6:25
Immediately she hurried to the king and said, “I want you to give me John the Baptist’s
Romans 10:2
I can testify about them that they have zeal for God,
James 1:19
My dearly loved brothers, understand this: Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,