◄ Job 32:19 ►
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Good News Translation
If I don't get a chance to speak, I will burst like a wineskin full of new wine.

New Revised Standard Version
My heart is indeed like wine that has no vent; like new wineskins, it is ready to burst.

Contemporary English Version
I am like a swollen wineskin, and I will burst

New American Bible
My belly is like unopened wine, like wineskins ready to burst.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold, my belly is as new wine which wanteth vent, which bursteth the new vessels.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold, my belly is as new wine which wanteth vent, which bursteth the new vessels.

hath no vent.

Matthew 9:17 Neither do they put new wine into old bottles. Otherwise the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish. But new wine they put into new bottles: and both are preserved.

Context
Elihu Rebukes Job's Three Friends
…18For I am full of matter to speak of, and the spirit of my bowels straiteneth me. 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.…
Cross References
Matthew 9:17
Neither do they put new wine into old bottles. Otherwise the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish. But new wine they put into new bottles: and both are preserved.

Job 32:18
For I am full of matter to speak of, and the spirit of my bowels straiteneth me.

Job 32:20
I will speak and take breath a little: I will open my lips, and will answer.

Jeremiah 6:11
Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord, I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the child abroad, and upon the council of the young men together: for man and woman shall be taken, the ancient and he that is full of days.

Job 32:18
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