Job 4:2
If we attempt a davar with thee, wilt thou be offended? 1 But who can withhold himself from speaking? 1
Orthodox Jewish 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 Eliphaz the Temani answered and said, 1
3Hinei, thou hast instructed rabbim (many), 1 and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. 1
Cross References
Job 32:20I will speak that I may be relieved; 1 I will open my sfatayim and answer. 1
Jeremiah 20:9Then I said: I will not make mention of Him, 1 nor speak any more in Shmo. 1 But His word was in Mine lev as a burning eish 1 shut up in my atzmot, 1 and I was weary of holding back, 1 and I could not. 1
2 Corinthians 2:4For out of much tzoros and of lev (heart) distress I wrote the iggeret to you with many tears, + 2:4 Ac 20:31 not that you should have agmat nefesh, but that you may have da'as of the ahavah in Hashem which I have more abundantly for all of 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 →