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Job 32:20
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I must speak so that I can find relief;I must open my lips and respond.
I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.
I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
I must speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.
I must speak so I will feel relief; I must open my mouth and answer.
I will speak, so that I may find relief; I will open my lips, so that I may answer.
"I must speak so that I may get relief; I will open my lips and answer.
"Let me speak so that I may get relief; Let me open my lips and answer.
I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.
Therefore will I speake, that I may take breath: I will open my lippes, and will answere.
Let me speak that I may get relief;Let me open my lips and answer.
I must speak and find relief; I must open my lips and respond.
if I don't speak.
I must speak, to find relief; I will open my lips and answer.
I will speak, that I may find relief; I will open my lips and answer.
I must speak so that I will feel better. I must answer your arguments.
I will speak so that I may find relief; I will open my lips and answer.
I can't stand it; I have to speak.
Let me speak that I may find relief; let me open my lips, and let me answer.
I will speak so that I may be relieved; I will open my lips and answer.
Therfore wil I speake, that I maye haue vete: I wil open my lyppes, and make answere.
I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.
Let me say what is in my mind, so that I may get comfort; let me give answer with open mouth.
I will speake, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lippes, and answere.
[Therfore] will I speake, that I may haue a bent: I will open my lippes, and make aunswere.
I will speak, that I may open my lips and relieve myself.
I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.
Y schal speke, and brethe ayen a litil; Y schal opene my lippis, and Y schal answere.
I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.
I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
I will speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.
I must speak to find relief, so let me give my answers.
Let me speak, that I may find comfort. Let me open my lips and answer.
I must speak, so that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.
I will speak, that I may freely breathe, I will open my lips and respond.
I will speak and take breath a little: I will open my lips, and will answer.
I must speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.
I speak, and there is refreshment to me, I open my lips and answer.
"Let me speak that I may get relief; Let me open my lips and answer.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I will speak: Job 13:13, Job 13:19, Job 20:2, Job 21:3
be refreshed: Heb. breathe
I will open: Proverbs 8:6, Proverbs 8:7
Reciprocal: Psalms 39:2 - my sorrow Isaiah 42:14 - long time 2 Corinthians 6:11 - our mouth
Cross-References
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. And he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two camps.
And he said: 'If Esau come to the one camp, and smite it, then the camp which is left shall escape.'
And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself; and said unto his servants: 'Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.'
And their father Israel said unto them: 'If it be so now, do this: take of the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spicery and ladanum, nuts, and almonds;
Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel; peradventure He will lighten His hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
And his servants said unto him: 'Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings; let us, we pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; peradventure he will save thy life.'
He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
A wrathful man stirreth up discord; but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
The wrath of a king is as messengers of death; but a wise man will pacify it.
A gift in secret pacifieth anger, and a present in the bosom strong wrath.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I will speak, that I may be refreshed,.... That his mind might be made easy; the matter it was full of lay with much weight upon it, pressed him hard, and gave him pain; and therefore he determines to speak his mind, and disburden himself: so a minister of the word speaks sometimes to the refreshment of others, the Gospel being a word in season to weary souls, bread to the hungry, drink to the thirsty, even wine to them that are of an heavy heart; and especially it is refreshing when the love of God is shed abroad in the heart through it, and the presence of God is enjoyed under it; and sometimes he speaks to the refreshment of himself with others, Romans 15:32; and whether it be so, one or the other, yet a faithful minister eases his mind, discharges his conscience, and is clear from the blood of all, when he truly and fully declares the whole counsel of God, so far as he is acquainted with it:
I will open my lips and answer; speak freely and boldly what was upon his mind, and he had to say, and which he judged would be a sufficient answer to Job; the opening of his lips is a phrase used by him in allusion to the opening of a bottle, full of new wine, the metaphor before expressed by him.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I will speak, that I may be refreshed - Margin, “breathe.” The meaning is, that he would then have room to breathe again; he would feel relieved.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 32:20. I will open my lips and answer. — In the preceding verse Elihu compares himself to a skin-bottle, in which the wine was in a state of fermentation, and the bottle ready to burst for want of vent. He carries on the metaphor in this verse: the bottle must be opened to save it from bursting; I will OPEN my mouth.
