Job 20:2
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2 “Therefore my (A)thoughts answer me,
because of my haste within me.
James 1:19
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Hearing and Doing the Word
19 (A)Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person (B)be quick to hear, (C)slow to speak, (D)slow to anger;
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Romans 10:2
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2 For I bear them witness that (A)they have a zeal for God, (B)but not according to knowledge.
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Mark 6:25
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25 And she came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”
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Jeremiah 20:9
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9 If I say, “I will not mention him,
or speak any more in his name,”
(A)there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones,
and (B)I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.
Ecclesiastes 7:9
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Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 7:9 Hebrew in the bosom
Proverbs 29:20
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20 Do you see a man who is hasty in his words?
(A)There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Proverbs 14:29
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29 Whoever is (A)slow to anger has great understanding,
but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Psalm 116:11
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Psalm 39:2-3
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2 I was (A)mute and silent;
I held my peace to no avail,
and my distress grew worse.
3 My (B)heart became hot within me.
As I mused, the fire burned;
then I spoke with my tongue:
Psalm 31:22
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22 I had said in my (A)alarm,[a]
“I am (B)cut off from (C)your sight.”
But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy
when I cried to you for help.
Footnotes
- Psalm 31:22 Or in my haste
Job 32:13-20
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13 Beware (A)lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom;
God may vanquish him, not a man.’
14 He has not directed his words against me,
and I will not answer him with your speeches.
15 “They are dismayed; they answer no more;
they have not a word to say.
16 And shall I wait, because they do not speak,
because they stand there, and answer no more?
17 I also will answer with my share;
I also will declare my opinion.
18 For I am full of words;
the spirit within me constrains me.
19 Behold, my belly is like wine that has no vent;
like new (B)wineskins ready to burst.
20 (C)I must speak, that I may find (D)relief;
I must open my lips and answer.
Job 20:3
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3 I hear censure that insults me,
and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.
Job 13:19
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19 (A)Who is there who will contend with me?
For then I would be silent and die.
Job 4:2
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2 “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
Yet who can keep from speaking?
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