Job 6:24
Explain this to me, and I'll be quiet. Show me where I'm wrong.
Free Bible 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
23Have I asked you to rescue me from an enemy? Have I told you to save me from my oppressors?
25Honest words are painful, but what do your arguments prove?
Cross References
Job 10:2I will tell God, “Don't just condemn me—tell me what you have against me.
Job 32:11Well, I waited to hear what you had to say, listening for your insights as you looked for the right words to speak.
Job 33:1“Now listen to me, Job. Pay attention to everything I have to say.
Job 34:32Show me what I cannot see. If I have done wrong, I won't do it again,’
Psalms 32:8“I will instruct you, teaching you the way to follow. I will advise you, watching out for you.
Proverbs 9:9Educate the wise and they'll become even wiser; teach those who live right and they will increase their 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 →