Job 4:2
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
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 matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
Read in contextActs 4:20
For we can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Read in contextJeremiah 6:11
Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
Read in contextJeremiah 20:9
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Read in context2 Corinthians 2:4–6
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
Read in context2 Corinthians 7:8–10
For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
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