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

I will speak

Job 13:13,19 Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me. . . .

Job 20:2 Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.

Job 21:3 Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.

be refreshed.

Proverbs 8:6,7 My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness. . . .

Context
Elihu Rebukes Job's Three Friends
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.21I will not accept the person of man, and I will not level God with man.…
Cross References
Job 32:19
Behold, my belly is as new wine which wanteth vent, which bursteth the new vessels.

Job 32:21
I will not accept the person of man, and I will not level God with man.

Lexicon
I must speak
אֲדַבְּרָ֥ה (’ă·ḏab·bə·rāh)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

and find relief;
וְיִֽרְוַֽח־ (wə·yir·waḥ-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7304: To breathe freely, revive, to have ample room

I must open
אֶפְתַּ֖ח (’ep̄·taḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6605: To open wide, to loosen, begin, plough, carve

my lips
שְׂפָתַ֣י (śə·p̄ā·ṯay)
Noun - fdc | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 8193: The lip, language, a margin

and respond.
וְאֶֽעֱנֶֽה׃ (wə·’e·‘ĕ·neh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6030: To answer, respond


Additional Translations
I must speak and find relief; I must open my lips and respond.I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.

I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.

I will speak, that I may open my lips and relieve myself.

I will speak, that I may find relief; I will open my lips and answer.

I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.

I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.

I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.

I speak, and there is refreshment to me, I open my lips and answer.
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