New Revised Standard Version
Should he be told that I want to speak? Did anyone ever wish to be swallowed up?

Contemporary English Version
Should I risk my life by telling God that I want to speak?

New American Bible
Will he be told about it when I speak? Can anyone talk when he is being destroyed?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who shall tell him the things I speak? even if a man shall speak, he shall be swallowed up.

Who shall tell him the things I speak? even if a man shall speak, he shall be swallowed up.

Shall it

Psalm 139:4 And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.

Matthew 12:36,37 But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment. . . .

surely

Job 6:3 As the sand of the sea, this would appear heavier: therefore, my words are full of sorrow:

Job 11:7,8 Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly? . . .