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King James Version

Job 32:20

I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Elihu;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethics;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Job, Book of;   Lip;   Refresh;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
I must speak to find relief, so let me give my answers.
English Revised Version
I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.
Update Bible Version
I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.
New Century Version
I must speak so I will feel relief; I must open my mouth and answer.
New English Translation
I will speak, so that I may find relief; I will open my lips, so that I may answer.
Webster's Bible Translation
I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
World English Bible
I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.
Amplified Bible
"I must speak so that I may get relief; I will open my lips and answer.
English Standard Version
I must speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal speke, and brethe ayen a litil; Y schal opene my lippis, and Y schal answere.
Berean Standard Bible
I must speak and find relief; I must open my lips and respond.
Contemporary English Version
if I don't speak.
American Standard Version
I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.
Bible in Basic English
Let me say what is in my mind, so that I may get comfort; let me give answer with open mouth.
Complete Jewish Bible
I must speak, to find relief; I will open my lips and answer.
Darby Translation
I will speak, that I may find relief; I will open my lips and answer.
Easy-to-Read Version
I must speak so that I will feel better. I must answer your arguments.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will speak, that I may find relief; I will open my lips and answer.
King James Version (1611)
I will speake, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lippes, and answere.
New Life Bible
Let me speak, that I may find comfort. Let me open my lips and answer.
New Revised Standard
I must speak, so that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore will I speake, that I may take breath: I will open my lippes, and will answere.
George Lamsa Translation
I will speak so that I may find relief; I will open my lips and answer.
Good News Translation
I can't stand it; I have to speak.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I will speak, that I may freely breathe, I will open my lips and respond.
Douay-Rheims Bible
I will speak and take breath a little: I will open my lips, and will answer.
Revised Standard Version
I must speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
[Therfore] will I speake, that I may haue a bent: I will open my lippes, and make aunswere.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I will speak, that I may open my lips and relieve myself.
Christian Standard Bible®
I must speak so that I can find relief;I must open my lips and respond.
Hebrew Names Version
I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.
Lexham English Bible
Let me speak that I may find relief; let me open my lips, and let me answer.
Literal Translation
I will speak so that I may be relieved; I will open my lips and answer.
Young's Literal Translation
I speak, and there is refreshment to me, I open my lips and answer.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore wil I speake, that I maye haue vete: I wil open my lyppes, and make answere.
New American Standard Bible
"Let me speak so that I may get relief; Let me open my lips and answer.
New King James Version
I will speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Let me speak that I may get relief; Let me open my lips and answer.
Legacy Standard Bible
Let me speak that I may get relief;Let me open my lips and answer.

Contextual Overview

15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking. 16 When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;) 17 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion. 18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. 19 Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles. 20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer. 21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man. 22 For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will speak: Job 13:13, Job 13:19, Job 20:2, Job 21:3

be refreshed: Heb. breathe

I will open: Proverbs 8:6, Proverbs 8:7

Reciprocal: Psalms 39:2 - my sorrow Isaiah 42:14 - long time 2 Corinthians 6:11 - our mouth

Cross-References

Genesis 32:8
And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
Genesis 32:9
And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
Genesis 32:17
And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
Genesis 43:11
And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
1 Samuel 6:5
Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
1 Kings 20:31
And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
Proverbs 6:35
He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
Proverbs 16:14
The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
Proverbs 21:14
A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will speak, that I may be refreshed,.... That his mind might be made easy; the matter it was full of lay with much weight upon it, pressed him hard, and gave him pain; and therefore he determines to speak his mind, and disburden himself: so a minister of the word speaks sometimes to the refreshment of others, the Gospel being a word in season to weary souls, bread to the hungry, drink to the thirsty, even wine to them that are of an heavy heart; and especially it is refreshing when the love of God is shed abroad in the heart through it, and the presence of God is enjoyed under it; and sometimes he speaks to the refreshment of himself with others, Romans 15:32; and whether it be so, one or the other, yet a faithful minister eases his mind, discharges his conscience, and is clear from the blood of all, when he truly and fully declares the whole counsel of God, so far as he is acquainted with it:

I will open my lips and answer; speak freely and boldly what was upon his mind, and he had to say, and which he judged would be a sufficient answer to Job; the opening of his lips is a phrase used by him in allusion to the opening of a bottle, full of new wine, the metaphor before expressed by him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will speak, that I may be refreshed - Margin, “breathe.” The meaning is, that he would then have room to breathe again; he would feel relieved.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 32:20. I will open my lips and answer. — In the preceding verse Elihu compares himself to a skin-bottle, in which the wine was in a state of fermentation, and the bottle ready to burst for want of vent. He carries on the metaphor in this verse: the bottle must be opened to save it from bursting; I will OPEN my mouth.


 
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