Job 6:24
Teach me, and I will indeed remain silent; and wherein I erred give me to understand.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
In Context
23And deliver me from the hand of the adversary? and redeem from the hand of tyrants?
25How pleasant are straightforward words! but what doth arguing prove?
Cross References
Job 10:2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; let me know for what cause thou contendest against me.
Job 32:11Behold, I waited for your words: I gave an attentive ear to your reasonings, till you might have searched out the [proper] words.
Job 33:1Therefore do thou but hear, O Job, my speeches, and give ear to all my words.
Job 34:32What I cannot see myself, do thou truly teach me; if I have done what is unjust, I will do so no more.”
Psalms 32:8I will instruct thee and I will teach thee concerning the way which thou oughtest to go: I will counsel thee with my eye.
Proverbs 9:9Give to the wise [instruction], and he will become yet wiser: impart knowledge to the righteous, and he will increase his information.
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 →