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

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

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

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But if I say, “I will not mention his word
    or speak anymore in his name,”(A)
his word is in my heart like a fire,(B)
    a fire shut up in my bones.
I am weary of holding it in;(C)
    indeed, I cannot.

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Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

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Then I said, “I will not make mention of Him,
Nor speak anymore in His name.”
But His word was in my heart like a (A)burning fire
Shut up in my bones;
I was weary of holding it back,
And (B)I could not.

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