This is why my unsettling thoughts compel me to answer,
because I am upset![a]
I have heard a rebuke that insults me,
and my understanding[b] makes me reply.(A)

Don’t you know that ever since antiquity,
from the time man was placed on earth,

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  1. Job 20:2 Lit because of my feeling within me
  2. Job 20:3 Lit and a spirit from my understanding

“My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer
    because I am greatly disturbed.(A)
I hear a rebuke(B) that dishonors me,
    and my understanding inspires me to reply.

“Surely you know how it has been from of old,(C)
    ever since mankind[a] was placed on the earth,

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  1. Job 20:4 Or Adam