Job 32:18
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.
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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.
- KJV
- For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
- WEB
- For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.
- ASV
- For I am full of words; The spirit within me constraineth me.
- DARBY
- For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
- BLB
- For I am full of words; the spirit [in] my belly presses me.
- ÅB
- For jeg er full av ord; ånden i mitt indre driver meg.
- OTB
- For jeg er fylt med ord,
og ånden i meg driver meg til å tale. - B1930
- For jeg er full av ord; ånden i mitt indre driver mig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 39:3
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
Read in contextActs 4:20
For we can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Read in contextJeremiah 20:9
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Read in contextEzekiel 3:14–27
So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.
Read in context2 Corinthians 5:13–14
For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
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