“ Job, suppose someone tries to talk to you. Will that make you uneasy? I can’t keep from speaking up.

“人若想与你说话，你就厌烦吗？但谁能忍住不说呢？

“人想与你说话，你就厌烦吗？但谁能忍住不发言呢？

“人想与你说话，你就厌烦吗？但谁能忍住不发言呢？

“若有人向你进言，你会厌烦吗？可是，谁能忍住不说呢？

“人若对你说一句话，你就厌烦吗？但谁又忍得住不说话呢？

人若想與你說話，你就厭煩嗎？但誰能忍住不說呢？

「人想與你說話，你就厭煩嗎？但誰能忍住不發言呢？

「人想與你說話，你就厭煩嗎？但誰能忍住不發言呢？

「若有人向你進言，你會厭煩嗎？可是，誰能忍住不說呢？

“人若對你說一句話，你就厭煩嗎？但誰又忍得住不說話呢？

『冒昧試要跟你說話、你耐不住麼？但抑制着不說、誰能夠呢？

人若試與爾言、爾厭之乎、然誰能自禁不言耶、

我欲與爾言、恐爾厭聞、然不得不言、

若敢與爾言、恐爾厭煩、然誰能含忍不語乎、

“ If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?

“ If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?

“ Will you be patient and let me say a word? For who could keep from speaking out?

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

“ If one ventures a word with you, will you become impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?

“ If one attempts a word with you, will you become weary? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

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

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

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

“ If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?

“ If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

I’m full of words. My spirit inside me forces me to speak.Inside I’m like wine that is bottled up. I’m like new wineskins ready to burst.I must speak so I can feel better. I must open my mouth and reply.

There’s nothing else we can do. We have to speak about the things we’ve seen and heard.”

Sometimes I think,“ I won’t talk about his message anymore. I’ll never speak in his name again.” But then your message burns in my heart. It’s like a fire deep inside my bones. I’m tired of holding it in. In fact, I can’t.

I was very troubled when I wrote to you. My heart was sad. My eyes were full of tears. I didn’t want to make you sad. I wanted to let you know that I love you very deeply.Suppose someone has made us sad. In some ways, he hasn’t made me sad so much as he has made all of you sad. But I don’t want to put this too strongly.He has been punished because most of you decided he should be. This punishment is enough.

But the Lord’ s anger burns inside me. I can no longer hold it in. The Lord says to me,“ Pour out my anger on the children in the street. Pour it out on the young men who are gathered together. Husband and wife alike will be caught in it. So will those who are very old.

Even if my letter made you sad, I’m not sorry I sent it. At first I was sorry. I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while.Now I am happy. I’m not happy because you were made sad. I’m happy because your sadness led you to turn away from your sins. You became sad just as God wanted you to. So you were not hurt in any way by us.Godly sadness causes us to turn away from our sins and be saved. And we are certainly not sorry about that! But worldly sadness brings death.