Devine Scripture

Job 4:2

Job chapter 4 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

Context

v.1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

v.2This passage

v.3Behold, thou hast instructed many, And thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

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.