Job 4:2

2 “If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?

Job 4:2 in Other Translations

KJV
2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
ESV
2 "If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?
NLT
2 “Will you be patient and let me say a word? For who could keep from speaking out?
MSG
2 "Would you mind if I said something to you? Under the circumstances it's hard to keep quiet.
CSB
2 Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking?

Job 4:2 In-Context

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 “If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
3 Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
4 Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.
5 But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.

Cross References 1

  • 1. Job 32:20; Jeremiah 4:19; Jeremiah 20:9
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