Job 4:2
If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
KJV
Si cœperimus loqui tibi, forsitan moleste accipies ; sed conceptum sermonem tenere quis poterit ?
Vulgate
Μὴ πολλάκις σοι λελάληται ἐν κόπῳ; ἰσχὺν δὲ ῥημάτων σου τίς ὑποίσει;
LXX
If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
ASV
הֲ/נִסָּ֬ה דָבָ֣ר אֵלֶ֣י/ךָ תִּלְאֶ֑ה וַ/עְצֹ֥ר בְּ֝/מִלִּ֗ין מִ֣י יוּכָֽל
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
דְבַר
dbr
noun · 1449×
י
y
noun · 38×
יוּכַ֣ל
yvkl
verb · 193×
מִ֣י
my
particle · 420×
נִלְאֵ֖יתִי
nl'yty
verb · 19×
נַסּ֥וֹת
nsvt
verb · 36×
עָצ֔וּר
'tsvr
verb · 45×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Acts 4:20 — For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
- Jer 6:11 — Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife sh
- Job 2:13 — So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
- Job 32:18 — For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.