Job 6:24
Teach me, and I will be silent, and if by chance I have been ignorant of anything, instruct me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
In Context
23or, “Free me from the hand of the enemy and rescue me from the hand of the strong?”
Cross References
Job 10:2I will say to God: Do not be willing to condemn me. Reveal to me why you judge me this way.
Job 32:11For I have endured your words; I have paid attention to your deliberations, while you were being argumentative with words.
Job 33:1Therefore, hear my speeches, Job, and listen to all my words.
Job 34:32If I have erred, you may teach me; if I have spoken unfairly, I will add no more.
Psalms 32:8Let all the earth fear the Lord, and may all the inhabitants of the world quake before him.
Proverbs 9:9Present an opportunity to the wise, and wisdom shall be added to him. Teach the just, and he will hurry to receive it.
Matthew Henry on Job 6:23-30
22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance? 23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty? 24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. 25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? 26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? 27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. 28 Now therefore be content, look… Read the whole commentary →