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Job 6:24
24Teach me the truth, and I will listen carefully. Explain to me the mistakes that I have made.
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
22I have never said to you, “Give me something to help me. Please use some of your money to rescue me.” 23I have not asked you to save me from the power of my enemy. Or to pay cruel people to let me go free. Teach me the truth, and I will listen carefully. Explain to me the mistakes that I have made. 25True words may give pain to the person who listens to them. But the things that you say against me mean nothing. 26You are warning me because of what I say. I have no hope and you think that my words are empty.
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ה֭וֹרוּנִי וַאֲנִ֣י אַחֲרִ֑ישׁ וּמַה־שָּׁ֝גִ֗יתִי הָבִ֥ינוּ לִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 6:24
- Job 5:27We have thought carefully about these things. We know that they are true. So listen to what we say. Accept it and it will be good for you.’
- Job 32:11Yes, I waited for you all to speak. I listened to your wise thoughts, as you tried to find the right words to say.
- Job 33:1‘But now, Job, listen to the things that I will tell you. Listen carefully to everything that I will say.
- Job 34:32Show me the sins that I have done when I did not know about them. If I have done wrong things, I will not do them again.”
- Psalms 32:8I will teach you the right way to live. I will be your guide and I will take care of you.
- Proverbs 9:9If you teach a wise person, he will become even more wise. If you teach a righteous person, he will learn whatever you tell him.
- Proverbs 25:12When a wise person warns you, that is also a beautiful thing. It is like a gold ear-ring or a gold necklace.
- James 1:19Understand this, my Christian friends: We must all be careful to listen. We should not be too quick to speak. We should not get angry quickly.
- Psalms 39:1I said, ‘I will be careful what I do, so that I do not sin. I will also be careful what I say. When wicked people are listening, I will not even open my mouth.’
- James 3:2We all make many mistakes. So, if someone never says anything that is bad, that person is completely good. It shows that he has authority over his whole body.
- Job 10:2This is what I will say to God: “Do not say that I am guilty. Tell me what bad things you think I have done.
- Psalms 19:12Nobody realizes every time they do something wrong. Please forgive me for the sins that I do not know about.
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
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