Job 4:2

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?

In context

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.

BSB Berean Standard Bible: “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
KJV King James Version: If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
WEB World English Bible: “If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
ASV American Standard Version: If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
YLT Young's Literal Translation: Hath one tried a word with thee? — Thou art weary! And to keep in words who is able?
DBY Darby Translation: If a word were essayed to thee, wouldest thou be grieved? But who can refrain from speaking?
WBS Webster Bible: If we essay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can refrain from speaking?