Job 6:24
“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.
World English Bible Catholic
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 adversary’s hand’? or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors’?
25How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
Cross References
Job 10:2I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
Job 32:11“Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.
Job 33:1“However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.
Job 34:32Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
Psalms 32:8I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
Proverbs 9:9Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in 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 →