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Job 4:2

If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill, but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Si cœperimus loqui tibi, forsitan moleste accipies ; sed conceptum sermonem tenere quis poterit ?
Septuagint (Swete): Μὴ πολλάκις σοι λελάληται ἐν κόπῳ; ἰσχὺν δὲ ῥημάτων σου τίς ὑποίσει;
Hebrew (WLC): הֲנִסָּ֬ה דָבָ֣ר אֵלֶ֣יךָ תִּלְאֶ֑ה וַעְצֹ֥ר בְּ֝מִלִּ֗ין מִ֣י יוּכָֽל

Haydock's commentary

Conceived? and to which the speech of Job had given occasion. (Menochius)

Septuagint, "Who shall bear the force of thy words? For if thou," &c. (Haydock)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.