Job 6:30

Is there any wrong on my tongue? or should my palate not understand [if I spoke] what is iniquitous?

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

In Context

29Reflect again, I pray you, there will be no wrong: yea, reflect once more, my righteousness [will be found] therein.

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Cross References

Job 11:4For thou hast said [to God], My doctrine is pure, and I am become clean in thy eyes.

Job 33:8But thou hast said before my ears, and the sound of the words I still hear,

Job 42:3Who is he that dareth to conceal [thy] counsel without knowledge? Truly I have spoken of what I understood not, of things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

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 →

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