Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
Wilt thou
Withhold himself from speaking
Bible References
Wilt thou
2 Corinthians 2:4
For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.
2 Corinthians 7:8
For if also I grieved you in the letter, I do not regret it, if even I have regretted it; for I see that that letter, if even it were only for a time, grieved you.
Withhold himself from speaking
Job 32:18
For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
Jeremiah 6:11
And I am full of the fury of Jehovah, I am weary with holding in. Pour it out upon the children in the street, 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.
Jeremiah 20:9
And I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name: but it was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; and I became wearied with holding in, and I could not.
Acts 4:20
for as for us we cannot refrain from speaking of the things which we have seen and heard.