Job 4:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself 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 answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

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 mine heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot contain.

Jeremiah 6:11

Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; 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.

Acts 4:20

for we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard.