Job 4:2
If a man tries to converse with thee, will thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
In Context
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,
3Behold, thou have instructed many, and thou have strengthened the weak hands.
Cross References
Job 32:20I will speak that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.
Jeremiah 20:9And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot.
2 Corinthians 2:4For out of much stress and dismay of heart, through many tears, I wrote to you, not that ye would be grieved, but that ye might know the love that I have so much more for you.
Matthew Henry on Job 4:2-7
The Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, 2 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. 5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. 6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the… Read the whole commentary →