Job 20:2 Cross References - Coverdale

² For the same cause do my thoughtes compell me to answere. And why? my mynde is tossed here and there.

² Yf we begynne to comon with the, peradueture thou wilt be myscontent, but who can witholde himself from speakynge?

¹⁹ What is he, that will go to lawe with me? For yf I holde my tonge, I shal dye.

³ I haue sufficiently herde the checkynge & reprofe, therfore am I purposed to make answere after my vnderstodinge.

¹³ lest ye shulde prayse youre selues, to haue founde out wy?dome: because it is God that hath cast him out, & no man. ¹⁴ Neuerthelesse, seynge he hath not spoken vnto me, therfore will not I answere him as ye haue done ¹⁵ (for they were so aba?shed, that they coude not make answere, ner speake one worde) ¹⁶ but in so moch as ye wil not speake, stondinge still like dom men & makinge no answere: ¹⁷ I haue a good hope for my parte to shappe him an answere & to shewe him my meanynge. ¹⁸ For I am full of wordes, & the sprete that is within me, copelleth me. ¹⁹ Beholde, I am as the new wyne which hath no vente, & bursteth the new vessels in sunder. ²⁰ Therfore wil I speake, that I maye haue vete: I wil open my lyppes, and make answere.

²² Thou hydest them priuely by thine owne presence from the proude men, thou kepest them secretly in thy tabernacle, from the strife of tonges.

² And so I shut my mouth, whyle the vngodly layed wayte for me. ³ I helde my tonge, I was domme, I kepte sylence, yee eue from good wordes, but it was payne and grefe to me.

¹¹ I sayde in my haist: All men are lyers.

²⁹ Pacience is a token of wi?dome, but wrath and haistie displeasure is a token of foolishnesse.

²⁰ Yf thou seyst a man that is haistie to speake vnaduysed, thou mayest trust a foole more then him.

⁹ Be not haistely angrie in yi mynde, for wrath resteth in the bosome of a foole.

⁹ Wherfore, I thought from hence forth, not to speake of him, ner to preach eny more in his name. But the worde off the LORDE was a very burnynge fyre in my hert and in my bones, which when I wolde haue stopped, I might not.

²⁵ And immediatly she wete in to the kinge with haist, and sayde: I will that thou geue me straight waye in a platter the heed of Ihon the baptist.

² For I beare them recorde, that they are zelous for Gods cause, but not wt vnderstondinge.

¹⁹ Wherfore deare brethren, let euery man be swifte to heare, slowe to speake, and slowe to wrath.