Job 4:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֲנִסָּ֬ה דָבָ֣ר אֵלֶ֣יךָ תִּלְאֶ֑ה וַעְצֹ֥ר בְּ֝מִלִּ֗ין מִ֣י יוּכָֽל׃

Transliteration

hă-nissāh dābār to ʾēlêkā tilʾeh and wa-ʿăṣōr with bə-millîn who mî yûkāl

Grammar Details

• *hă-nissāh*: interrogative particle + Piel infinitive absolute - if one attempts/tries
• *dābār*: noun, masculine singular - word/speech/thing
• *ʾēlêkā*: preposition + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - to you
• *tilʾeh*: Qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you will be weary/tired
• *wa-ʿăṣōr*: waw conjunction + Qal infinitive construct - and to restrain/hold back
• *bə-millîn*: preposition + noun, feminine plural - with words
• *mî*: interrogative pronoun - who
• *yûkāl*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he is able/can

Word Meanings

• *nissāh*: to try/test/attempt
• *dābār*: word/speech/matter/thing
• *tilʾeh*: to be weary/tired/impatient
• *ʿăṣōr*: to restrain/hold back/retain
• *millîn*: words/speech (poetic form of *millim*)
• *yûkāl*: to be able/capable/endure

Referenced Verses

• Job 32:18-20 : 18 For I am full of words; The spirit within me constraineth me. 19 Behold, my breast is as wine which hath no vent; Like new wine-skins it is ready to burst. 20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.
• Acts 4:20 : 20 for we {G1410} cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard.
• 2 Cor 2:4-6 : 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you. 5 But if any hath caused sorrow, he hath caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all. 6 Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was [inflicted] by the many;
• 2 Cor 7:8-9 : 8 For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though {G2532} I did regret [it] (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season), 9 I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing. 10 For {G2596} godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, [a repentance] which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
• Jer 6:11 : 11 Therefore I am full of the wrath of Jehovah; 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.
• Jer 20:9 : 9 And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot [contain].