Job 20:2

“Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, etc.] Or “to return” f766 and appear upon the stage again, and enter the lists once more with his antagonist; he suggests as if he had intended to have said no more in this controversy, but observing what Job had said last, could not forbear replying: “therefore” because he had represented him and his friends as cruel persecutors of him, as men devoid of all humanity, pity, and compassion, and endeavoured to terrify them with the punishments of the sword, and the judgment of God to come; these occasioned many “thoughts” in him, and those thoughts obliged him to give an answer; they came in so thick and fast upon him, that out of the abundance, his…”

“Therefore - לכן lākên, “certainly, truly.” In view of what has been just said. Or perhaps the word means merely certainly, truly. Do my thoughts cause me to answer - This is variously rendered. The Vulgate renders it, Idcirco cogitationes meae variae succedunt sibi, et mens in diversa rapitur - “Therefore my various thoughts follow in succession, and the mind is distracted.” The Septuagint, “I did not suppose that thou wouldst speak against these things, and you do not understand more than I.” How this was ever made from the Hebrew it is impossible to say. On the word “thoughts,” see the notes at Job 4:13. The word denotes thoughts which divide and distract the mind; not calm and collected…”

“Therefore - For this thy severe sentence. Make haste - I speak sooner than I intended. And possibly interrupted Job, when he was proceeding in his discourse. Job 20:3”

“my thoughts: Job 20:3, Job 4:2, Job 13:19, Job 32:13-20; Psa 39:2, Psa 39:3; Jer 20:9; Rom 10:2 and for: Psa 31:22, Psa 116:11; Pro 14:29, Pro 29:20; Ecc 7:9; Mar 6:25; Jam 1:19 I make haste: Heb. my haste is in me Job 20:3”