Job 4:2 ““If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can kee…”

Job 4:2

“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

World English Bible

“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

American Standard Version

If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

Geneva Bible 1599

If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? but who can withholde himselfe from speaking?

Darby Translation

If a word were essayed to thee, wouldest thou be grieved? But who can refrain from speaking?

Young's Literal Translation

Hath one tried a word with thee? — Thou art weary! And to keep in words who is able?

Bible in Basic English

If one says a word, will it be a weariness to you? but who is able to keep from saying what is in his mind?

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Cross references

“wilt thou”

2 Corinthians 2:4–6 2 Corinthians 7:8–10

2 Corinthians 2:4–6 · BSB

For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.

2 Corinthians 7:8–10 · BSB

Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Although I did regret it—for I see that my letter caused you sorrow, but only for a short time—

“withhold himself from speaking”

Job 32:18–20 Acts 4:20 Jeremiah 6:11 Jeremiah 20:9

Job 32:18–20 · BSB

For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.

Acts 4:20 · BSB

For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

Jeremiah 6:11 · BSB

But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old a…

Jeremiah 20:9 · BSB

If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

3Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.

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