Job 6:30

Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

29Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again — my righteousness [is] in it.

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Cross References

Job 11:4And thou sayest, 'Pure [is] my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'

Job 33:8Surely — thou hast said in mine ears, And the sounds of words I hear:

Job 42:3'Who [is] this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know 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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