2If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
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For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. …
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. …
For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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. With what modesty he speaks of himself and his own attempt. He will not undertake…
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