Job 20:2 Cross References - LEB

² "Therefore my disquieting thoughts bring me back _⌊for the sake of_⌋* my inward excitement.*

² "If someone would test a word with you, would you be offended? But* who can refrain from speaking?

¹⁹ Who is he who will contend with me? For _⌊then_⌋ I would be silent, and I would pass away.

³ I hear discipline that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.

¹³ So do not say, 'We have found wisdom; let God refute him, not a man.' ¹⁴ But* he did not direct his words* to me, and I will not answer him with your* words. ¹⁵ "They are dismayed; they no longer answer; _⌊they have nothing to say_⌋.* ¹⁶ And I have waited because they do not speak, because they stand there and no longer answer. ¹⁷ I myself will answer my share also; I myself will declare my knowledge also, ¹⁸ for I am full of words;* _⌊the spirit within me_⌋* urges me. ¹⁹ "Look, my internal organs are like unopened wine, like new wineskins it* is ready to burst open. ²⁰ Let me speak _⌊that I may find relief_⌋;* let me open my lips, and let me answer.

²² As for me, I said in my alarm, "I am cut off from before your eyes." However you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you for help.

² I was mute with silence. I was silent even from saying good things, and my pain was stirred up. ³ My heart grew hot inside me; in my sighing a fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue,

¹¹ I said in my haste, "_⌊Everyone_⌋* is a liar."

²⁹ He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but the hasty of spirit* exalts folly.

²⁰ You see a man who is hasty in his words: there is more hope for a fool than him.

⁹ Do not be quick in your spirit to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.

⁹ But if I say, "I will not mention him and I will no longer speak in his name," then it becomes in my heart like a fire burning, locked up in my bones, and I struggle to contain it,* and I am not able.

²⁵ And she came in immediately with haste to the king and* asked, saying, "I want you to give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately."

² For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

¹⁹ Understand this, my dear brothers: every person must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,