| Job 4:2 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "If one ventures a word with you, will you become impatient? But who can refrain from speaking? (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | "If someone tries to talk to you, will you become impatient? But who can keep from talking?(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? |
| ASV: | If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking? |
| BBE: | If one says a word, will it be a weariness to you? but who is able to keep from saying what is in his mind? |
| DBY: | If a word were essayed to thee, wouldest thou be grieved? But who can refrain from speaking? |
| ERV: | If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? |
| JPS: | If one venture a word unto thee, wilt thou be weary? But who can withhold himself from speaking? |
| WBS: | If we essay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can refrain from speaking? |
| WEB: | "If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking? |
| YLT: | Hath one tried a word with thee? -- Thou art weary! And to keep in words who is able? |
| Job 4:2 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 32:18 "For I am full of words; The spirit within me constrains me. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 4:2 [If] we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but {a} who can withhold himself from speaking?
(a) Seeing your impatience. |
| WES: | 4:2 If we, and c. - He speaks with great modesty. He will not undertake the cause alone, but joins his friends with him. He will not promise much, but only assay, or try if he could propose any thing pertinent to Job's case. Withhold - When he hears such words from such a person as thou art. |
| MHC: | 4:1-6 Satan undertook to prove Job a hypocrite by afflicting him; and his friends concluded him to be one because he was so afflicted, and showed impatience. This we must keep in mind if we would understand what passed. Eliphaz speaks of Job, and his afflicted condition, with tenderness; but charges him with weakness and faint-heartedness. Men make few allowances for those who have taught others. Even pious friends will count that only a touch which we feel as a wound. Learn from hence to draw off the mind of a sufferer from brooding over the affliction, to look at the God of mercies in the affliction. And how can this be done so well as by looking to Christ Jesus, in whose unequalled sorrows every child of God soonest learns to forget his own? |
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