Job 4:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² If we venture to converse with you, will you be offended? Yet who can restrain himself from speaking?

American Standard Version (1901)

² If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

Common English Bible

² If one tries to answer you, will you be annoyed? But who can hold words back?

Catholic Public Domain Version

² If we start to speak to you, perhaps you will take it badly, but who can hold back the words he has conceived?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill: but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?

Job 4:2 Cross References

Job 4:1

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:

Jeremiah 20:9

If I say, “I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,” then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.

Jeremiah 6:11

But I am full of the wrath of the Lord; I am weary of holding it in. Pour it out on the children in the street and on the gatherings of young men as well; both husband and wife shall be taken, the elderly and those full of days.

Acts 4:20

for we cannot keep from speaking about what we have seen and heard.”