Job 4:2

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

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

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

4 Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
KJV
If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
WEB
“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
ASV
If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
DARBY
If a word were essayed to thee, wouldest thou be grieved? But who can refrain from speaking?
BLB
“Should one try a word with you, will you be wearied? And who is able to be restrained from a word?
ÅB
Om en prøvde å tale et ord til deg, ville du da ta det ille opp? Men hvem kan vel holde sine ord tilbake?
OTB
"Hvis noen våger å tale til deg, vil du bli urolig?
Men hvem kan holde tilbake ord?
B1930
Om en prøvde å tale et ord til dig, vilde du da ta det ille op? Men hvem kan vel holde sine ord tilbake?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Job 32:18–20

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

    Read in context
  • Acts 4:20

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

    Read in context
  • Jeremiah 6:11

    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 alike.

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  • Jeremiah 20:9

    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.

    Read in context
  • 2 Corinthians 2:4–6

    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.

    Read in context
  • 2 Corinthians 7:8–10

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

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