the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Job 20:2
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This is why my unsettling thoughts compel me to answer,because I am upset!
"Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me.
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
"Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.
"My troubled thoughts cause me to answer, because I am very upset.
"This is why my troubled thoughts bring me back— because of my feelings within me.
"Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me answer, Because of the uneasiness that is within me.
"Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me respond, Even because of my inward agitation.
"Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me.
Doubtles my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.
"Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me respond,Even because of my haste within me.
"So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.
Your words are disturbing; now I must speak.
"My thoughts are pressing me to answer; I feel such an urge to speak!
Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.
"You upset me, so I must answer you. I must tell you what I am thinking.
Therefore my discipline has caused me to discern, and for my help it has remained with me.
"Therefore my disquieting thoughts bring me back for the sake of my inward excitement.
So my thoughts cause me to answer, even because of my haste in me.
For the same cause do my thoughtes compell me to answere. And why? my mynde is tossed here and there.
Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me.
For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.
Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of mine agitation that is in me.
Therefore doe my thoughts cause mee to answere, and for this I make haste.
For the same cause do my thoughtes compell me to aunswere, and therefore, make haste.
I did not suppose that thou wouldest answer thus: neither do ye understand more than I.
Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.
Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me.
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for [this] I make haste.
"Therefore my anxious thoughts make me answer, Because of the turmoil within me.
"I must reply because I am greatly disturbed.
"My troubled thoughts make me answer, because I have no rest inside.
"Pay attention! My thoughts urge me to answer, because of the agitation within me.
Not so, do my thoughts answer me, and to this end, is my haste within me:
Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.
"Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.
Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.
"Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me respond, Even because of my inward agitation.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
my thoughts: Job 20:3, Job 4:2, Job 13:19, Job 32:13-20, Psalms 39:2, Psalms 39:3, Jeremiah 20:9, Romans 10:2
and for: Psalms 31:22, Psalms 116:11, Proverbs 14:29, Proverbs 29:20, Ecclesiastes 7:9, Mark 6:25, James 1:19
I make haste: Heb. my haste is in me
Reciprocal: Job 32:20 - I will speak
Cross-References
and the womman was takun vp in to the hous of Farao.
Abraham answerde, Y thouyte with me, and seide, in hap the drede of God is not in this place; and thei schulen sle me for my wijf;
in other maner forsothe and sche is my sister verili, the douyter of my fadir, and not the douyter of my moder; and Y weddide hir in to wijf;
sotheli aftir that God ladde me out of the hous of my fadir, Y seide to hir, Thou schalt do this mercy with me in ech place to which we schulen entre; thou schalt seie, that Y am thi brother.
Forsothe for hungur roos on the lond, aftir thilke bareynesse that bifelde in the daies of Abraham, Isaac yede forth to Abymelech, kyng of Palestyns, in Gerara.
And whanne he was axid of men of that place of his wijf, he answarde, Sche is my sistir; for he dredde to knowleche that sche was felouschipid to hym in matrymonye, and gesside lest peraduenture thei wolden sle him for the fairnesse of hir.
in so myche that Abymelech him silf seide to Ysaac, Go thou awei fro vs, for thou art maad greetly myytier than we.
Whom the profete Hieu, the sone of Ananye, mette, and seide to hym, Thou yyuest help to a wickid man, and thou art ioyned bi frendschip to hem that haten the Lord; and therfor sotheli thou deseruedist the wraththe of the Lord;
Sotheli Eliezer, sone of Dodan, of Maresa, profesiede to Josaphat, and seide, For thou haddist boond of pees with Ocozie, the Lord smoot thi werkis; and the schippis ben brokun, and myyten not go in to Tharsis.
Netheles in the message of the princes of Babiloyne, that weren sent to hym for to axe of the grete wondir, that bifelde on the lond, God forsook hym, that he were temptid, and that alle thingis weren knowun that weren in his herte.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer,.... Or "to return" a and appear upon the stage again, and enter the lists once more with his antagonist; he suggests as if he had intended to have said no more in this controversy, but observing what Job had said last, could not forbear replying: "therefore" because he had represented him and his friends as cruel persecutors of him, as men devoid of all humanity, pity, and compassion, and endeavoured to terrify them with the punishments of the sword, and the judgment of God to come; these occasioned many "thoughts" in him, and those thoughts obliged him to give an answer; they came in so thick and fast upon him, that out of the abundance, his heart suggested to him he could not but speak, he was full of matter, and the spirit within him, the impulse upon his mind, constrained him to make a reply; and he seems desirous of having it understood that his answer proceeded from thought; that he did not speak without thinking, but had well weighed things in his mind; and what he was about to say was the fruit of close thinking and mature deliberation:
and for [this] I make haste; because his thoughts crowded in upon him, he had a fulness of matter, an impulse of mind, promptitude and readiness to speak on this occasion, and for fear of losing what was suggested to him, he made haste to give in his answer, perhaps observing some other of his friends rising up before him. The Targum is,
"because my sense is in me;''
and so other Jewish writers b; be apprehended he had a right sense of things, and understood the matter in controversy full well, and therefore thought it incumbent on him to speak once more in it: Gussetius c renders it, "because of my disquietude"; the uneasiness of his mind raised by what Job had said, that he would have them know and consider there was a judgment; and he intimates he had considered it, and was fearful that should he be silent, and make no reply, God would condemn him in judgment for his silence; and therefore he was in a hurry to make answer, and could not be easy without it; and for his reasons for so doing he further explains himself in Job 20:3.
a ישיבוני "reducunt me, q. d. in scenam"; Cocceius, Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius. b Ben Gersom, Bar Tzemach, Sephorno and so Montanus. c Ebr. Comment. p. 246.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Therefore - לכן lākên, “certainly, truly.” In view of what has been just said. Or perhaps the word means merely certainly, truly.
Do my thoughts cause me to answer - This is variously rendered. The Vulgate renders it, Idcirco cogitationes meae variae succedunt sibi, et mens in diversa rapitur - “Therefore my various thoughts follow in succession, and the mind is distracted.” The Septuagint, “I did not suppose that thou wouldst speak against these things, and you do not understand more than I.” How this was ever made from the Hebrew it is impossible to say. On the word “thoughts,” see the notes at Job 4:13. The word denotes thoughts which divide and distract the mind; not calm and collected reflections, but those which disturb, disconcert, and trouble. He acknowledges that it was not calm reflection which induced him to reply, but the agitating emotions produced by the speech of Job. The word rendered “cause me to answer” (ישׁיבוּני yeshı̂ybûnı̂y), “cause me to return” - and Jerome understood it as meaning that his thoughts returned upon him in quick and troublesome succession, and says in his Commentary on Job, that the meaning is, “I am troubled and agitated because you say that you sustain these evils from God without cause, when nothing evil ought to be suspected of God.”
And for this I make haste - Margin, “my haste is in me.” The meaning is, “the impetuosity of my feelings urges me on. I reply on account of the agitation of my soul, which will admit of no delay.” His heart was full, and he hastened to give vent to his feelings in impassioned and earnest language.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 20:2. Therefore do my thoughts — It has already been observed that Zophar was the most inveterate of all Job's enemies, for we really must cease to call them friends. He sets no bounds to his invective, and outrages every rule of charity. A man of such a bitter spirit must have been, in general, very unhappy. With him Job is, by insinuation, every thing that is base, vile, and hypocritical. Mr. Good translates this verse thus: "Whither would my tumult transport me? And how far my agitation within me?" This is all the modesty that appears in Zophar's discourse. He acknowledges that he is pressed by the impetuosity of his spirit to reply to Job's self-vindication. The original is variously translated, but the sense is as above.
For this I make haste. — ובעבור חושי בי ubaabur chushi bi, there is sensibility in me, and my feelings provoke me to reply.
