Job 4:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? but who can withholde himselfe from speaking?

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  • Job 32:18-20 : 18 For I am full of matter, and the spirite within me compelleth me. 19 Beholde, my belly is as the wine, which hath no vent, and like the new bottels that brast. 20 Therefore will I speake, that I may take breath: I will open my lippes, and will answere.
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 For we cannot but speake the things which we haue seene and heard.
  • 2 Cor 2:4-6 : 4 For in great affliction, & anguish of heart I wrote vnto you with many teares: not that yee should be made sorie, but that ye might perceiue the loue which I haue, specially vnto you. 5 And if any hath caused sorowe, the same hath not made mee sorie, but partly (lest I should more charge him ) you all. 6 It is sufficient vnto the same man, that hee was rebuked of many.
  • 2 Cor 7:8-9 : 8 For though I made you sorie with a letter, I repent not, though I did repent: for I perceiue that the same epistle made you sorie, though it were but for a season. 9 I nowe reioyce, not that ye were sorie, but that ye sorowed to repentance: for ye sorowed godly, so that in nothing ye were hurt by vs. 10 For godly sorowe causeth repentance vnto saluation, not to be repented of: but the worldly sorowe causeth death.
  • Jer 6:11 : 11 Therefore I am full of the wrath of the Lorde: I am weary with holding it: I will powre it out vpon the children in the streete, and likewise vpon the assembly of the yong men: for the husbande shall euen be taken with the wife, and the aged with him that is full of daies.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speake any more in his Name. But his worde was in mine heart as a burning fire shut vp in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

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