JOB 20:2 Parallel View

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UST “What you have said troubles me greatly,
⇔ so I want to reply to you right away.

BSB  ⇔ “So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer,
⇔ because of the turmoil within me.

OEB Nay, not so do my thoughts make answer;
⇔ And therefore my heart is uproused.

WEB “Therefore my thoughts answer me,
⇔ even by reason of my haste that is in me.

NET “This is why my troubled thoughts bring me back –
 ⇔ because of my feelings within me.
¶ 

LSV “Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer,
And because of my sensations in me.

FBV “I'm forced to reply because I'm really upset!

T4T “I am very perturbed about what you have said,
⇔ so I want to reply very quickly.

LEB • [fn] my inward excitement.[fn]

?:? Literally “and in because of”

?:? Or “my inward haste”

BBE For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.

MOF No MOF JOB book available

JPS Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of mine agitation that is in me.

ASV Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me,
 ⇔ Even by reason of my haste that is in me.

DRA Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.

YLT Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.

DBY Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.

RV Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

WBS Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

KJB Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.[fn]
(Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.)

20.2 I make…: Heb. my haste is in me

BB For the same cause do my thoughtes compell me to aunswere, and therefore, make haste.
(For the same cause do my thoughts compell me to answer, and therefore, make haste.)

GNV Doubtlesse my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.

CB For the same cause do my thoughtes compell me to answere. And why? my mynde is tossed here and there.
(For the same cause do my thoughts compell me to answere. And why? my mind is tossed here and there.)

WYC Therfor my thouytis dyuerse comen oon aftir anothir; and the mynde is rauyischid in to dyuerse thingis.
(Therefore my thoughts dyuerse comen one after another; and the mind is rauyischid in to dyuerse things.)

LUT Darauf muß ich antworten und kann nicht harren.
(Darauf must I antworten and kann not harren.)

CLV [Idcirco cogitationes meæ variæ succedunt sibi, et mens in diversa rapitur.
([Idcirco cogitationes my variæ succedunt sibi, and mens in diversa rapitur. )

BRN I did not suppose that thou wouldest answer thus: neither do ye understand more than I.

BrLXX Οὐχ οὕτως ὑπελάμβανον ἀντερεῖν σε ταῦτα, καὶ οὐχὶ συνίετε μᾶλλον ἢ καὶ ἐγώ.
(Ouⱪ houtōs hupelambanon anterein se tauta, kai ouⱪi suniete mallon aʸ kai egō. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases

לָ֭⁠כֵן

for=so/thus/hence

Zophar is using the word Therefore to introduce the reason he is about to give for why he is speaking to Job again. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could indicate this in your translation. Alternate translation: “This is why”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

שְׂעִפַּ֣⁠י יְשִׁיב֑וּ⁠נִי

disquieting_thoughts,my answer,me

Zophar is speaking of his thoughts as if they were a living thing that could turn him back, that is, make him turn around and return to Job as if he had left him. He means that he wants to speak to Job again and share what he is thinking in response to what Job has just said. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “I need to speak to you again and tell you what I am thinking”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicitinfo

וּ֝⁠בַ⁠עֲב֗וּר ח֣וּשִׁ⁠י בִֽ⁠י

and,in/on/at/with,because_of agitation,my in/on/at/with,me

It might seem that this expression contains extra information that would be unnatural to express in your language. If so, you can shorten it. Alternate translation: “because I feel such urgency”

Parallel JOB 20:2