Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper

Job 4:2

In 11 translations

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?to…: Heb. a wordwithhold…: Heb. refrain from words?
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?
LSV: “Has one tried a word with you? You are weary! And who is able to keep in words?
YLT: Hath one tried a word with thee? — Thou art weary! And to keep in words who is able?
DBY: If a word were essayed to thee, wouldest thou be grieved? But who can refrain from speaking?
DRC: If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill, but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?
GNV: If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? but who can withholde himselfe from speaking?
JPS: If one venture a word unto thee, wilt thou be weary? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
LXXE: Hast thou been often spoken to in distress? but who shall endure the force of thy words?

WLC: הֲנִסָּ֬ה דָבָ֣ר אֵלֶ֣יךָ תִּלְאֶ֑ה וַעְצֹ֥ר בְּ֝מִלִּ֗ין מִ֣י יוּכָֽל׃
LXX-Br: Μὴ πολλάκις σοι λελάληται ἐν κόπῳ; ἰσχὺν δὲ ῥημάτων σου τίς ὑποίσει;

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From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Job 32:18–20For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me. Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin. I must speak and find relief; I must open my lips and respond.
Acts 4:20For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
Jeremiah 6:11But 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…
Jeremiah 20:9If 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.
2 Corinthians 2:4–6For 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. Now if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me but all of you—to some…
2 Corinthians 7:8–10Even 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. And now I rejoice, not because you were made sorrowful, but…

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