Job 6:24
Show me, and I keep silent, || And what I have erred, let me understand.
Literal Standard 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
23And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, Ransom me from the hand of terrible ones?
25How powerful have been upright sayings, || And what reproof from you reproves?
Cross References
Job 10:2I say to God, Do not condemn me, || Let me know why You strive [with] me.
Job 32:11Behold, I have waited for your words, I give ear to your reasons, || Until you search out sayings.
Job 33:1“And yet, please, O Job, || Hear my speech and give ear [to] all my words.
Job 34:32Besides [that which] I see, You show me, || If I have done iniquity—I do not add?
Psalms 32:8I cause you to act wisely, || And direct you in the way that you go, || I cause My eye to take counsel concerning you.
Proverbs 9:9Give to the wise, and he is wiser still, || Make known to the righteous, || And he increases 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 →