Ayub 20:2

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

"Oleh sebab itulah pikiran-pikiranku mendorong aku menjawab, karena hatiku tidak sabar lagi.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
"Oleh sebab itulah pikiran-pikiranku mendorong aku menjawab, karena hatiku tidak sabar lagi.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bahwa segala sangka-sangka hatiku memaksakan daku akan memberi jawab, akan memadamkan nafsu yang di dalam aku.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then aunswered Sophar the Naamathite, and saide: ² For the same cause do my thoughtes compell me to aunswere, and therefore, make haste. ³ I haue sufficiently heard the checking of my reproofe, therefore the spirite of myne vnderstanding causeth me to aunswere. ⁴ Knowest thou not this of olde, and since God plaged man vpon earth, ⁵ That the gladnesse of the vngodlie hath ben short, and that the ioy of hypocrites continued but the twinckling of an eye? ⁶ Though he be magnified vp to the heauen, so that his head reacheth vnto the cloudes: ⁷ Yet at a turne he perisheth for euer, insomuch that they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is he? ⁸ He shall vanishe as a dreame, so that he can no more be founde, and shal passe away as a vision in the night. ⁹ So that the eye which sawe him before, shal haue no more sight of him, and his place shall know him no more.

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

Genesis 12:15
The princes also of Pharao sawe her, and comended her before Pharao, and the woman was taken into Pharaos house.

Genesis 20:11
Abraha aunswered: For I thought [thus] surely the feare of God is not in this place, and they shal slaye me for my wyues sake.

Genesis 20:12
Yet in very deede she is my sister, for she is ye daughter of my father, though she be not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wyfe.

Genesis 20:13
And after God caused me to wander out of my fathers house, I sayde vnto her: this kyndnesse shalt thou shewe vnto me, in all places where we come, that thou say of me, he is my brother.

Genesis 26:1
And there fell a famine in the land, besides the first that was in the dayes of Abraham: And Isahac went vnto Abimelech, king of the Philistines, vnto Gerar.

Genesis 26:7
And the men of the place asked [him] of his wyfe. And he sayde, she is my sister: for he feared to say, she is my wyfe, lest the men of the place shoulde haue kylled hym, because of Rebecca, whiche was beautifull to the eye.

Genesis 26:16
And Abimelech sayde vnto Isahac: Get thee from vs, for thou art mightier then we a great deale.

2 Chronicles 19:2
And Iehu the sonne of Hanani the sear went out to meete him, and sayd to king Iehosaphat: Wouldest thou helpe the vngodly, and loue them that hate the Lorde? Therfore is wrath come downe vpon thee from before the Lorde:

2 Chronicles 20:37
And Eliezer the sonne of Dodauah of Maresa prophesied against Iehosaphat, saying: Because thou hast ioyned thy selfe with Ahaziahu, ye lord hath broken thy workes. And the shippes were broke that they were not able to go to Tharsis.

2 Chronicles 32:31
And when the princes of Babylon sent vnto him ambassadours, to enquire of the wonder that chaunced in the lande, God left him, to trye him, and that all that was in his heart might be knowen.

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 y^eshı̂ybûnı̂y), “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.