Job 4:2
If we start to speak to you, perhaps you will take it badly, but who can hold back the words he has conceived?
Catholic Public Domain 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
1But Eliphaz the Themanite, answering, said:
3Behold, you have taught many, and you have strengthened weary hands.
Cross References
Job 32:20I should speak, but I will also breathe a little; I will open my lips, and I will answer.
Jeremiah 20:9Then I said: I will not call him to mind, nor will I speak any longer in his name. And my heart became like a raging fire, enclosed within my bones. And I became weary of continuing to bear it.
2 Corinthians 2:4For with much tribulation and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not so that you would be sorrowful, but so that you might know the charity that I have more abundantly toward 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 →