Contemporary English Version
Please be patient and listen to what I have to say. *

New American Bible
If someone attempts a word with you, would you mind? How can anyone refrain from speaking?

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

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

to commune.

2 Corinthians 2:4-6 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you might know the charity I have more abundantly towards you. . . .

2 Corinthians 7:8-10 For although I made you sorrowful by my epistle, I do not repent. And if I did repent, seeing that the same epistle (although but for a time) did make you sorrowful, . . .

withhold himself from speaking.

Job 32:18-20 For I am full of matter to speak of, and the spirit of my bowels straiteneth me. . . .

Jeremiah 6:11 Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord, I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the child abroad, and upon the council of the young men together: for man and woman shall be taken, the ancient and he that is full of days.

Jeremiah 20:9 Then I said: I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name: and there came in my heart as a burning fire, shut up in my bones, and I was wearied, not being able to bear it.

Acts 4:20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.