Job 6:24

Job 6:24 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
• New International Version (NIV)“Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have gone astray.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

Context of Job 6:24

22Did I say, Bring unto me, and make me a present from your substance? 23Or, rescue me from the hand of the oppressor, and redeem me from the hand of the violent? Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. 25How forcible are right words! but what doth your upbraiding reprove? 26Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.

Job 6:24 word by word

ה֭וֹרוּנִי וַאֲנִ֣י אַחֲרִ֑ישׁ וּמַה־שָּׁ֝גִ֗יתִי הָבִ֥ינוּ לִֽי׃Read the interlinear

• Teachיָרָהyârâh yârâ' · to showH3384
• understandבִּיןbîyn · to understandH995
• erredשָׁגָהshâgâh · to wanderH7686

Cross-references for Job 6:24

• Job 5:27Behold this, we have searched it out, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thyself.
• Job 32:11Lo, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasonings, until ye searched out what to say.
• Job 33:1Howbeit, Job, I pray thee, hear mine utterances, and hearken to all my words.
• Job 34:32What I see not, teach thou me; if I have done wrong, I will do so no more?
• Psalms 32:8I will instruct thee and teach thee the way in which thou shalt go; I will counsel [thee] with mine eye upon thee.
• Proverbs 9:9Impart to a wise [man], and he will become yet wiser; teach a righteous [man], and he will increase learning.
• Proverbs 25:12An ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, is a wise reprover upon an attentive ear.
• James 1:19So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
• Psalms 39:1I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a muzzle, while the wicked is before me.
• James 3:2For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, he [is] a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too.
• Job 10:2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with me.
• Psalms 19:12Who understandeth [his] errors? Purify me from secret [faults].

Commentaries on Job 6:24

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24Teach me - Show me where I am mistaken. Bring proper arguments to convince me of my errors; and you will soon find that I shall gladly receive your counsels, and abandon the errors of which I may be convicted.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue - That is, give me any real instruction, or show me what is my duty, and I will be silent. By this he means that Eliphaz had really imparted no instruction, but had dealt only in the language of reproof. The sense is, “I would willingly sit and listen where truth is imparted, and where I could be enabled to see the reason of the divine dealings. If I could be made to understand where I have erred, I would acquiesce.”Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-30Verses 14-30 In his prosperity Job formed great expectations from his friends, but now was disappointed. This he compares to the failing of brooks in summer. Those who rest their expectations on the creature, will find it fail when it should help them; whereas those who make God their confidence, have help in the time of need, He 4:16. Those who make gold their hope, sooner or later will be ashamed of it, and of their confidence in it. It is our wisdom to…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-27Job and his friends might have shared a covenant (special agreement) of loyalty and faith (Hebrew khesed; see Genesis 21:23; Exodus 15:13; 1 Chronicles 16:34). This bond would have made them like brothers, those who protect, and friends he could trust (Job 6:14–15; 6:21–23, 27). If they were in a covenant with one another, Job was accusing his friends of violating their covenant with him.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 24-2524-25. Irony. If you can "teach me" the right view, I am willing to be set right, and "hold my tongue"; and to be made to see my error. But then if your words be really the right words, how is it that they are so feeble? "Yet how feeble are the words of what you call the right view." So the Hebrew is used (in Mi 2:10; 1:9). The English Version, "How powerful," &c., does not agree so well with the last clause of the verse.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Job 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings