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Job 20:2

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

Cross References

  1. If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
  2. Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
  3. I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
  4. Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man. Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches. They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking. When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;) I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion. For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles. I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
  5. 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.
  6. I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
  7. I said in my haste, All men are liars.
  8. He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
  9. Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
  10. Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
  11. Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
  12. 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.
  13. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
  14. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: