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Job 4:2
Job 4:2 is verse 2 of Job chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
King James Version
If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
World English Bible
“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
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Job 4:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
3 Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
4 Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
2 Corinthians 2:4For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.
2 Corinthians 2:5Now if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me but all of you—to some degree, not to overstate it.
2 Corinthians 2:6The punishment imposed on him by the majority is sufficient for him.
2 Corinthians 7:8Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Although I did regret it, I now see that my letter caused you sorrow, but only for a short time.
2 Corinthians 7:9And now I rejoice, not because you were made sorrowful, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you felt the sorrow that God had intended, and so were not harmed in any way by us.
2 Corinthians 7:10Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
Job 32:18For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.
Job 32:19Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin.
Job 32:20I must speak and find relief; I must open my lips and respond.
Jeremiah 6:11But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.
Jeremiah 20:9If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
Acts 4:20For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”