Job 6:24
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Darby Translation
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, rescue me from the hand of the oppressor, and redeem me from the hand of the violent?
25How forcible are right words! but what doth your upbraiding reprove?
Cross References
Job 10:2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with me.
Job 32:11Lo, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasonings, until ye searched out what to say.
Job 33:1Howbeit, Job, I pray thee, hear mine utterances, and hearken to all my words.
Job 34:32What I see not, teach thou me; if I have done wrong, I will do so no more?
Psalms 32:8I will instruct thee and teach thee the way in which thou shalt go; I will counsel [thee] with mine eye upon thee.
Proverbs 9:9Impart to a wise [man], and he will become yet wiser; teach a righteous [man], and he will increase learning.
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 →