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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 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 speak, that I may find relief; I will open my lips and answer.
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
"If Esau attacks one camp," he thought, "then the other camp will be able to escape."
Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O Lord , you said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.'
He instructed the servant leading the first herd, "When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?'
Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: Take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and take a gift down to the man—a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.
You should make images of the sores and images of the mice that are destroying the land. You should honor the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his grip on you, your gods, and your land.
His advisers said to him, "Look, we have heard that the kings of the Israelite dynasty are kind. Allow us to put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and surrender to the king of Israel. Maybe he will spare our lives."
He will not consider any compensation; he will not be willing, even if you multiply the compensation.
A quick-tempered person stirs up dissension, but one who is slow to anger calms a quarrel.
A king's wrath is like a messenger of death, but a wise person appeases it.
A gift given in secret subdues anger, and a bribe given secretly subdues 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.
