Job 4:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?”
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““If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?”
King James Version · Public Domain“If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Hath one tried a word with thee? --Thou art weary! And to keep in words who is able?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 4:2 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 32:18For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.
- Job 32:20I must speak and find relief; I must open my lips and respond.
- 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 alike.
- 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.
- Acts 4:20For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
- 2 Corinthians 2:4For 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 7:8Even 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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