Job 4:2

Modern

“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?

Traditional

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

Literal

“Should one try a word with you, will you be wearied? And who is able to be restrained from a word?

Latin

Si cœperimus loqui tibi, forsitan moleste accipies; sed conceptum sermonem tenere quis poterit?

Hebrew

English

“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?

Eliphaz the Temanite was probably the oldest and most important of Job’s friends (see study note on 2:11). His speeches are longer and more detailed than the others.
who can keep from speaking?: Eliphaz imitated how urgent a message from prophets can be (4:12–16; see Jeremiah 20:9; Amos 3:8).

Job 32:18–20
For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.
Acts 4:20
For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
Jeremiah 6:11
But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.
2 Corinthians 7:8–10
Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Although I did regret it—for I see that my letter caused you sorrow, but only for a short time—
2 Corinthians 2:4–6
For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.
Jeremiah 20:9
If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.