New English Translation
Job 6:24
24“Teach me and I, for my part, will be silent; explain to me how I have been mistaken.
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
22“Have I ever said, ‘Give me something, and from your fortune make gifts in my favor’? 23Or ‘Deliver me from the enemy’s power, and from the hand of tyrants ransom me’? “Teach me and I, for my part, will be silent; explain to me how I have been mistaken. 25How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove? 26Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?
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ה֭וֹרוּנִי וַאֲנִ֣י אַחֲרִ֑ישׁ וּמַה־שָּׁ֝גִ֗יתִי הָבִ֥ינוּ לִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 6:24
- Job 5:27Look, we have investigated this, so it is true. Hear it, and apply it for your own good.”
- Job 32:11Look, I waited for you to speak; I listened closely to your wise thoughts,while you were searching for words.
- Job 33:1“But now, O Job, listen to my words, and hear everything I have to say!
- Job 34:32Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will do so no more.’
- Psalms 32:8I will instruct and teach you about how you should live. I will advise you as I look you in the eye.
- Proverbs 9:9Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning.
- Proverbs 25:12Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to the ear of the one who listens.
- James 1:19Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.
- Psalms 39:1I decided, “I will watch what I say and make sure I do not sin with my tongue. I will put a muzzle over my mouth while in the presence of an evil man.”
- James 3:2For we all stumble in many ways. If someone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to control the entire body as well.
- Job 10:2I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’
- Psalms 19:12Who can know all his errors? Please do not punish me for sins I am unaware of.
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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