Job 4:2 (BSB)
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
Commentary on Job 4:2
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 4:1-6: In these verses, I. Eliphaz excuses the trouble he is now about to give to Job by his discourse (Job 4:2): "If we assay a word with thee, offer a word of reproof and counsel, wilt thou be grieved and take it ill?" We have reason to fear thou wilt; but there is no remedy: "Who can refrain from words?" Observe, 1.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 4:2: Behold, thou hast instructed many,.... This is introduced with a "behold", either as a note of admiration, that such a man, who had instructed others, should act the part he now does; or as a note of attention to Job himself, and all others that should hear and read this, to observe it, and well consider it, and make the proper use of it; or...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 4:2: If we assay to commune--Rather, two questions, "May we attempt a word with thee? Wilt thou be grieved at it?" Even pious friends often count that only a touch which we feel as a wound.
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 4:2: [If] we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? (a) Seeing your impatience.