Job 4:2

Should anyone try to speak with you
when you are exhausted?
Yet who can keep from speaking?

Job 32:18-20

For I am full of words,
and my spirit compels me to speak.

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,
on the gang of young men as well.
For both husband and wife will be captured,
the old with the very old.

Jeremiah 20:9

If I say, “I won’t mention Him
or speak any longer in His name,”
His message becomes a fire burning in my heart,
shut up in my bones.
I become tired of holding it in,
and I cannot prevail.

Acts 4:20

for we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

2 Corinthians 2:4-6

For I wrote to you with many tears out of an extremely troubled and anguished heart—not that you should be hurt, but that you should know the abundant love I have for you.

2 Corinthians 7:8-10

For even if I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it—even though I did regret it since I saw that the letter grieved you, yet only for a little while.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Withhold himself from speaking

Bible References

Wilt thou

2 Corinthians 2:4
For I wrote to you with many tears out of an extremely troubled and anguished heart—not that you should be hurt, but that you should know the abundant love I have for you.
2 Corinthians 7:8
For even if I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it—even though I did regret it since I saw that the letter grieved you, yet only for a little while.

Withhold himself from speaking

Job 32:18
For I am full of words,
and my spirit compels me to speak.
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,
on the gang of young men as well.
For both husband and wife will be captured,
the old with the very old.
Jeremiah 20:9
If I say, “I won’t mention Him
or speak any longer in His name,”
His message becomes a fire burning in my heart,
shut up in my bones.
I become tired of holding it in,
and I cannot prevail.
Acts 4:20
for we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

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