Job 6:24
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?
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?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Teach me, and I will be silent. Help me understand how I have erred.
- KJV
- Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
- WEB
- “Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.
- ASV
- Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
- DARBY
- Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
- BLB
- teach me, and I will be silent, and give understanding to me of how I have erred.
- ÅB
- Lær meg, så skal jeg tie, og vis meg hvori jeg har faret vill!
- OTB
- “Lær meg, så vil jeg være stille;
vis meg hvor jeg har gått feil. - B1930
- Lær mig, så skal jeg tie, og vis mig hvori jeg har faret vill!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
James 3:2
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Read in contextProverbs 9:9
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Read in contextJob 34:32
That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
Read in contextPsalms 19:12
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
Read in contextPsalms 39:1–2
I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Read in contextJob 10:2
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Read in contextPsalms 32:8
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
Read in contextJob 33:1
Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
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