Job 4:2

World English Bible (2000)

"If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 32:18-20 : 18 For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me. 19 Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins 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 can't help telling the things which we saw and heard."
  • 2 Cor 2:4-6 : 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you. 5 But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press 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 letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you sorry, though just for a while. 9 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing. 10 For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.
  • Jer 6:11 : 11 Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh. I am weary with holding in. "Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 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 can't [contain].

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

  • Job 18:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

    2 "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

  • Job 22:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

    2 "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

  • 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

  • 20 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

  • 4 You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'

  • Job 16:3-6
    4 verses
    72%

    3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

    4 I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

    5 but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

    6 "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

  • Job 33:31-33
    3 verses
    72%

    31 Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak.

    32 If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.

    33 If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom."

  • Job 11:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 "Shouldn't the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

    3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

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

  • Job 15:11-13
    3 verses
    71%

    11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?

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

    13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • 4 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?

  • 4 Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

  • Job 15:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

    4 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

  • 19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

  • 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

  • 5 If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.

  • Job 15:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

    9 What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

  • 3 Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?

  • 3 "Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

  • 22 Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me.

  • 4 I will answer you, and your companions with you.

  • 2 "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."

  • Job 8:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

    2 "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

  • 14 for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches.

  • 34 Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me:

  • 3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.

  • 2 "How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

  • 15 If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

  • 2 "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

  • 6 Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn't dare show you my opinion.

  • 1 Moreover Elihu answered,

  • 2 "Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God's behalf.

  • 14 How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

  • 5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.

  • 7 It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

  • 2 "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.