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Job 4:2 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Job 4:2Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 4:28 words
HebrewMeaning
הֲ/נִסָּ֬הhănisāh
¿ did someone attemptparticleH5254
assay · prove · tempt · try
דָבָ֣רdābār
a wordnounH1697
advice · affair · answer · any such ···
אֵלֶ֣י/ךָʾēleykā
to youpronH413
according to · after · against · among ···
תִּלְאֶ֑הtiləʾeh
will you be impatient?verbH3811
grieve · lothe · (be · make) weary
וַ/עְצֹ֥רwaʿəṣōr
and to restrainconjH6113
be able · detain · fast · keep (self close ···
בְּ֝/מִלִּ֗יןbəmiliyn
wordspronH4405
answer · matter · any thing to say · to speak ···
מִ֣יmiy
who?particleH4310
he · him · O that! what · which ···
יוּכָֽלywkāl
is he ableverbH3201
any at all · attain · can (away with · ) ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 4:2

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? It has been a1ready declared above, what there is set forth in the interpretation of these names. Therefore, because we are in haste to reach the unexamined parts, we forbear to unfold again what has been already delivered. According1y this is to be heedfully observed, that they, that bear the semblance of heretics, begin to speak softly, saying, If we assay to commune with…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 5 §28
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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