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Job 4:2
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“If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
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Job 4:2 in Other Translations
KJV
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If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
ESV
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"If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?
NLT
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“Will you be patient and let me say a word? For who could keep from speaking out?
MSG
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"Would you mind if I said something to you? Under the circumstances it's hard to keep quiet.
CSB
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Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking?
Job 4:2 In-Context
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
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“If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
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Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
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Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.
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But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
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Job 32:20
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Jeremiah 4:19
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Jeremiah 20:9
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