“Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.”
"Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me." Zophar is agitated. His thoughts tumble quickly; he is driven by internal urgency. The verse suggests that Zophar cannot contain his response—he must speak immediately, driven by emotion rather than careful reflection.
Church Fathers on Job 20:2
Therefore do my thoughts changefully succeed one another, and my mind is transported diverse ways. As though he said in plain words; ‘Because I see the terribleness of the last Judgment, therefore I am confounded in a state of consternation by the tumults of my thoughts.’ For the mind spreads itself wider in its range of thought, the more it considers how dreadful that is which threatens it. And ‘the mind is transported diverse ways,’ when with anxious alarm she weighs and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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