“My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer
    because I am greatly disturbed.(A)
I hear a rebuke(B) that dishonors me,
    and my understanding inspires me to reply.

“Surely you know how it has been from of old,(C)
    ever since mankind[a] was placed on the earth,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 20:4 Or Adam

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

I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

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“Therefore my anxious thoughts make me answer,
Because of the turmoil within me.
I have heard the rebuke [a]that reproaches me,
And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.

“Do you not know this of (A)old,
Since man was placed on earth,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 20:3 Lit. of my insulting correction