Job 4:2

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If someone attempts to speak with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?

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  • Job 32:18-20 : 18 For I am full of words, and the spirit within me compels me. 19 Inside me, my heart is like wine that has no vent, ready to burst like new wineskins. 20 Let me speak so that I may find relief; let me open my lips and answer.
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 'For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.'
  • 2 Cor 2:4-6 : 4 For out of great distress and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the love I have for you more abundantly. 5 Now if anyone has caused sorrow, they have not grieved me alone but to some degree—not to overburden you—they have grieved all of you. 6 The punishment imposed by the majority is sufficient for such a person.
  • 2 Cor 7:8-9 : 8 For even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it at first, I see that this letter grieved you, though only for a while. 9 Now I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because your grief led to repentance. For you were grieved as God intended, so that you would not suffer any loss from us. 10 For godly sorrow produces repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow produces death.
  • Jer 6:11 : 11 But I am full of the wrath of the Lord, and I am weary of holding it in. Pour it out on the children in the streets and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be taken, the old and those advanced in years.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 But if I say, 'I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,' His word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded and said:

  • Job 18:1-2
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    1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

    2 How long will you keep putting an end to words? Consider, and then we will speak.

  • Job 22:1-2
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    1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

    2 Can a man benefit God? Even a wise man benefits only himself.

  • 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

  • 20 Should it be told to Him that I would speak? Or should a man say that he would be swallowed up?

  • 4 You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.'

  • Job 16:3-6
    4 verses
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    3 Will your words of wind never end? Or what provokes you to answer?

    4 I could also speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

    5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips would bring you relief.

    6 If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, what do I lose?

  • Job 33:31-33
    3 verses
    72%

    31 Pay attention, Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

    32 If you have anything to say, answer me; speak up, for I want to justify you.

    33 But if not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.

  • Job 11:2-3
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    2 Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and should a man full of talk be justified?

    3 Will your empty talk silence others? Will you mock without anyone to rebuke you?

  • 5 But oh, that God would speak and open His lips against you,

  • Job 15:11-13
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    11 Are the consolations of God too trivial for you, or a word spoken gently with you?

    12 Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash?

    13 That you turn your spirit against God and let words escape from your mouth?

  • 4 To whom have you uttered words, and whose breath has come from you?

  • 4 Is it because of your reverence that He rebukes you and brings you into judgment?

  • Job 15:3-4
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    3 Should he argue in a way that is useless and speak words that bring no benefit?

    4 But you are tearing down reverence and diminishing devotion to God.

  • 19 Who can contend with me? For now, if I am silent, I will perish.

  • 4 Is my complaint directed to a man? Why then should my spirit not be impatient?

  • 5 If you can, answer me; prepare yourself before me and take your stand.

  • Job 15:8-9
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    8 Have you listened to the secret counsel of God and limited wisdom to yourself?

    9 What do you know that we do not know? What insight do you have that is not with us?

  • 3 Who has given to me first, that I should repay them? Everything under the heavens belongs to me.

  • 3 But I desire to speak to the Almighty, and I wish to reason with God.

  • 22 Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You respond to me.

  • 4 I will answer you and your companions who are with you.

  • 2 Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? Let the one who argues with God answer.

  • Job 8:1-2
    2 verses
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    1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

    2 How long will you continue to speak such things? Your words are like a mighty wind.

  • 14 But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.

  • 34 Men of understanding declare, and the wise man who hears me says:

  • 3 If someone desired to argue with Him, they could not answer Him once in a thousand times.

  • 2 How long will you torment my soul and crush me with words?

  • 15 If I had spoken out like that, I would have betrayed Your children.

  • 2 Who is this that darkens counsel with words without knowledge?

  • 6 So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said, "I am young in years, and you are old; therefore, I held back and was afraid to tell you what I think.

  • 1 Then Elihu answered and said:

  • 2 Wait a little longer for me, and I will show you that there is still more to say on God's behalf.

  • 14 How then can I answer Him? I would choose my words carefully in His presence.

  • 5 I would know the words he would answer me with and understand what he would say to me.

  • 7 After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, 'My anger burns against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about Me as My servant Job has.'

  • 2 Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.