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Job 4:2

NETBible	“If someone¹ should attempt² a word with you, will you be impatient?³ But who can refrain from speaking⁴?
NIV © biblegateway Job 4:2	"If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
NASB © biblegateway Job 4:2	"If one ventures a word with you, will you become impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?
NLT © biblegateway Job 4:2	"Will you be patient and let me say a word? For who could keep from speaking out?
MSG © biblegateway Job 4:2	"Would you mind if I said something to you? Under the circumstances it's hard to keep quiet.
BBE © SABDAweb Job 4:2	If one says a word, will it be a weariness to you? but who is able to keep from saying what is in his mind?
NRSV © bibleoremus Job 4:2	"If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? But who can keep from speaking?
NKJV © biblegateway Job 4:2	" If one attempts a word with you, will you become weary? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
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KJV	[If] we assay <05254> (8765) to commune <01697> with thee, wilt thou be grieved <03811> (8799)_? but who can <03201> (8799) withhold <06113> (8800) himself from speaking <04405>_? {to...: Heb. a word} {withhold...: Heb. refrain from words?}
NASB © biblegateway Job 4:2	"If one ventures <05254> a word <01697> with you, will you become <03811> impatient <03811> ? But who <04310> can <03201> refrain <06113> from speaking <04405> ?
LXXM	mh <3165> ADV pollakiv <4178> ADV soi <4771> P-DS lelalhtai <2980> V-RMI-3S en <1722> PREP kopw <2873> N-DSM iscun <2479> N-ASF de <1161> PRT rhmatwn <4487> N-GPN sou <4771> P-GS tiv <5100> I-NSM upoisei <5297> V-FAI-3S
NET [draft] ITL	“If someone should attempt <05254> a word <01697> with <0413> you, will you be impatient <03811> ? But who <04310> can <03201> refrain <06113> from speaking <04405> ?
HEBREW	lkwy <03201> ym <04310> Nylmb <04405> ruew <06113> halt <03811> Kyla <0413> rbd <01697> honh (4:2) <05254>

NETBible

“If someone¹ should attempt² a word with you, will you be impatient?³ But who can refrain from speaking⁴?

NET Notes

¹tn The verb has no expressed subject, and so may be translated with “one” or “someone.”

²tn The Piel perfect is difficult here. It would normally be translated “has one tried (words with you)?” Most commentaries posit a conditional clause, however.

³tn The verb means “to be weary.” But it can have the extended sense of being either exhausted or impatient (see v. 5). A. B. Davidson (Job, 29) takes it in the sense of “will it be too much for you?” There is nothing in the sentence that indicates this should be an interrogative clause; it is simply an imperfect. But in view of the juxtaposition of the first part, this seems to make good sense. E. Dhorme (Job, 42) has “Shall we address you? You are dejected.”

⁴tn The construction uses a noun with the preposition: “and to refrain with words – who is able?” The Aramaic plural of “words” (מִלִּין, millin) occurs 13 times in Job, with the Hebrew plural ten times. The commentaries show that Eliphaz’s speech had a distinctly Aramaic coloring to it.