Job 4:2
“Will you please let me say something to you? I am not [RHQ] able to remain silent any longer.
Translation for Translators
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, from Teman, replied to Job. He said,
3In the past, you have instructed/taught many people, and you have encouraged those who were weak.
Cross References
Job 32:20I must speak [MTY], in order that I do not have to keep holding what I want to say; I must say something [MTY] to reply to you all.
Jeremiah 20:9But if I would say, ‘I will never mention Yahweh or say anything about him, [MTY]’ it would be as though your message would burn in my inner being like [SIM] a fire; it would be like a fire in my bones. Sometimes I try to remain silent and not proclaim your messages, but I am not able to do that.
2 Corinthians 2:4I wrote to you the way I did because I felt very troubled and distressed about you. I was even crying very much as I wrote. My purpose in writing was not in order to make you feel bad, but, instead, in order that you might know how deeply/much I love 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 →