Job 4:2
What does Job 4:2 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 4:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
KJV
King James Version · 1611If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949If one says a word, will it be a weariness to you? but who is able to keep from saying what is in his mind?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Hath one tried a word with thee? --Thou art weary! And to keep in words who is able?
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill; but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890If a word were essayed to thee, wouldest thou be grieved? But who can refrain from speaking?
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Acts 4:20
for we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard.
- 2 Corinthians 2:4
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
- Jeremiah 6:11
Therefore I am full of the wrath of Jehovah; I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
- Job 32:18
For I am full of words; The spirit within me constraineth me.
- 2 Corinthians 7:8
For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though I did regret it (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season),
- Jeremiah 20:9
And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot contain.
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