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Green's Literal Translation

Job 32:20

I will speak so that I may be relieved; I will open my lips and answer.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Elihu;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethics;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Job, Book of;   Lip;   Refresh;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I must speak so that I can find relief;I must open my lips and respond.
Hebrew Names Version
I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.
King James Version
I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
English Standard Version
I must speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.
New Century Version
I must speak so I will feel relief; I must open my mouth and answer.
New English Translation
I will speak, so that I may find relief; I will open my lips, so that I may answer.
Amplified Bible
"I must speak so that I may get relief; I will open my lips and answer.
New American Standard Bible
"Let me speak so that I may get relief; Let me open my lips and answer.
World English Bible
I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore will I speake, that I may take breath: I will open my lippes, and will answere.
Legacy Standard Bible
Let me speak that I may get relief;Let me open my lips and answer.
Berean Standard Bible
I must speak and find relief; I must open my lips and respond.
Contemporary English Version
if I don't speak.
Complete Jewish Bible
I must speak, to find relief; I will open my lips and answer.
Darby Translation
I will speak, that I may find relief; I will open my lips and answer.
Easy-to-Read Version
I must speak so that I will feel better. I must answer your arguments.
George Lamsa Translation
I will speak so that I may find relief; I will open my lips and answer.
Good News Translation
I can't stand it; I have to speak.
Lexham English Bible
Let me speak that I may find relief; let me open my lips, and let me answer.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore wil I speake, that I maye haue vete: I wil open my lyppes, and make answere.
American Standard Version
I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.
Bible in Basic English
Let me say what is in my mind, so that I may get comfort; let me give answer with open mouth.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will speak, that I may find relief; I will open my lips and answer.
King James Version (1611)
I will speake, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lippes, and answere.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
[Therfore] will I speake, that I may haue a bent: I will open my lippes, and make aunswere.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I will speak, that I may open my lips and relieve myself.
English Revised Version
I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal speke, and brethe ayen a litil; Y schal opene my lippis, and Y schal answere.
Update Bible Version
I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.
Webster's Bible Translation
I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
New King James Version
I will speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.
New Living Translation
I must speak to find relief, so let me give my answers.
New Life Bible
Let me speak, that I may find comfort. Let me open my lips and answer.
New Revised Standard
I must speak, so that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I will speak, that I may freely breathe, I will open my lips and respond.
Douay-Rheims Bible
I will speak and take breath a little: I will open my lips, and will answer.
Revised Standard Version
I must speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.
Young's Literal Translation
I speak, and there is refreshment to me, I open my lips and answer.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Let me speak that I may get relief; Let me open my lips and answer.

Contextual Overview

15 They are broken; they do not reply again; words have been removed from them. 16 Shall I wait because they do not speak, because they stand, not answering again? 17 I also will answer my share; I also will declare what I know. 18 For I am full of words; the spirit inside me pressed on me; 19 behold my belly is like wine that has no vent; it bursts like new wineskins. 20 I will speak so that I may be relieved; I will open my lips and answer. 21 I will not now lift up the face of a man, nor eulogize any man. 22 For I do not know how to eulogize; else after a little my Maker will take me away.

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

Genesis 32:8
And he said, If Esau comes to the one company and strikes it, then it will be, the company that is left shall escape.
Genesis 32:9
And Jacob said, Oh God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah, who said to me, Go back to your land and to your kindred and I will deal well with you.
Genesis 32:17
And he commanded the first ones, saying, When my brother Esau meets you and asks, saying, Whose are you, and where do you go, and whose are these before your face?
Genesis 43:11
And their father Israel said to them, If it be so, then do this: take from the produce of the land in your vessels and bring down a present to the man, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts and almonds.
1 Samuel 6:5
And you shall make images of your hemorrhoids, and images of your mice that are corrupting the land, and shall give honor to the God of Israel. It may be that He will lighten His hand from off you and from off your gods, and from off your land.
1 Kings 20:31
And his servants said to him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and we shall go to the king of Israel. It may be hewill keep alive your life.
Proverbs 6:35
He will not lift up the face of every ransom, nor will he consent if you multiply the bribes.
Proverbs 15:18
A furious man stirs up quarreling, but he who is slow to anger calms fighting.
Proverbs 16:14
A king's fury is as messengers of death, but a wise man will cover it.
Proverbs 21:14
A gift in secret subdues anger; yea, a bribe in the bosom quiets great fury.

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.


 
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