Job 6:24
Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and if I have been ignorant in any thing, instruct me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 deliver me from the hand of the enemy, and rescue me out of the hand of the mighty?
25Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me?
Cross References
Job 10:2I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so.
Job 32:11For I have waited for your words, I have given ear to your wisdom, as long as you were disputing in words.
Job 33:1Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
Job 34:32If I have erred, teach thou me : if I have spoken iniquity, I will add no more.
Psalms 32:8I will give thee understanding, and I will instruct thee in this way, in which thou shalt go: I will fix my eyes upon thee.
Proverbs 9:9Give an occasion to a wise man, and wisdom shall be added to him. Teach a just man, and he shall make haste 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 →