Job 32:20
Good News Translation
I can't stand it; I have to speak.

New Revised Standard Version
I must speak, so that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.

Contemporary English Version
if I don't speak. *

New American Bible
Let me speak and obtain relief; let me open my lips, and reply.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will speak and take breath a little: I will open my lips, and will answer.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I will speak and take breath a little: I will open my lips, and will answer.

I will speak

Job 13:13,19 Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me. . . .

Job 20:2 Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.

Job 21:3 Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.

be refreshed.

Proverbs 8:6,7 My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness. . . .

Context
Elihu Rebukes Job's Three Friends
19Behold, my belly is as new wine which wanteth vent, which bursteth the new vessels. 20I will speak and take breath a little: I will open my lips, and will answer.21I will not accept the person of man, and I will not level God with man.…
Cross References
Job 32:19
Behold, my belly is as new wine which wanteth vent, which bursteth the new vessels.

Job 32:21
I will not accept the person of man, and I will not level God with man.

Job 32:19
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