Job 4:2
If we essay to address a word to thee, wilt thou be wearied? yet who is able to refrain from speaking?
Leeser Tanakh
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 answered Eliphaz the Themanite, and said,
3Behold, thou hast [ere this] corrected many, and weak hands thou wast wont to strengthen.
Cross References
Job 32:20I will speak, that I may breathe freer: I will open my lips and answer.
Jeremiah 20:9And I thought, I will not make mention of him, and I will not speak any more in his name. But it became in my heart as a burning fire enclosed within my bones, and I was weary with enduring, and I could not overcome it.
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 →