Job 4:2
If one attempt a word with thee, wilt thou be offended? But who can refrain from speaking?
Noyes Bible
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 spake Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:
3Behold, thou hast admonished many; Thou hast strengthened feeble hands;
Cross References
Job 32:20I will speak, that I may be relieved; I will open my lips and answer.
Jeremiah 20:9So I say, I will no more make mention of him, Nor speak any more in his name; But his word is in my heart like a burning fire, shut up in my bones, And I am weary with forbearing, And I cannot refrain.
2 Corinthians 2:4For out of much distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that ye should be made sorrowful, but that ye might know the exceeding love which I have 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 →