Job 34:32

King James Version

That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Or ‘I don't know what evil I have done—tell me. If I have done wrong, I will stop at once'?

English Revised Version
That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?

Update Bible Version
That which I don't see teach me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?

New Century Version
Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done wrong, I will not do it again.'

New English Translation
Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will do so no more.'

Webster's Bible Translation
[That which] I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

World English Bible
Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

Amplified Bible
Teach me what I do not see [in regard to how I have sinned]; If I have done wrong (injustice, unrighteousness), I will not do it again'?

English Standard Version
teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If Y erride, teche thou me; if Y spak wickidnesse, Y schal no more adde.

Berean Standard Bible
Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.'

Contemporary English Version
Then ask him to point out what you did wrong, so you won't do it again.

American Standard Version
That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?

Bible in Basic English
Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English.

Complete Jewish Bible
teach me what I have failed to see; and if I have done wrong, I will do it no more'?

Darby Translation
What I see not, teach thou me; if I have done wrong, I will do so no more?

Easy-to-Read Version
Show me the sins I am not able to see. If I have done wrong, I will not do it again.'

JPS Old Testament (1917)
That which I see not teach Thou me; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

King James Version (1611)
That which I see not, teach thou me; If I haue done iniquitie, I will doe no more.

New Life Bible
Teach me what I cannot see. If I have sinned, I will do it no more'?

New Revised Standard
teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

Geneva Bible (1587)
But if I see not, teach thou me: if I haue done wickedly, I will doe no more.

George Lamsa Translation
Inform me now, teach me, if you have committed iniquity;

Good News Translation
Have you asked God to show you your faults, and have you agreed to stop doing evil?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
What I see not, do, thou, shew me, If, perverseness, I have wrought, I will do it no more?

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I have erred, teach thou me: if I have spoken iniquity, I will add no more.

Revised Standard Version
teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If I haue gone amisse, enfourme thou me: If I haue done wrong, I wyll leaue of.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I will see apart from myself: do thou shew me if I have done unrighteousness; I will not do so any more.

Christian Standard Bible®
Teach me what I cannot see;if I have done wrong, I won’t do it again.”

Hebrew Names Version
Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

Lexham English Bible
teach me yourself what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not repeat it'?

Literal Translation
Besides what I see, You teach me; if I have done iniquity, I will not do it again.

Young's Literal Translation
Besides [that which] I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done -- I do not add?'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf I haue gone amysse, enfourme me: yf I haue done wronge, I wil leaue of.

New American Standard Bible
Teach me what I do not see; If I have done wrong, I will not do it again'?

New King James Version
Teach me what I do not see; If I have done iniquity, I will do no more'?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Teach me what I do not see; If I have done iniquity, I will not do it again'?

Legacy Standard Bible
Instruct me what I do not behold;If I have done injustice,I will not do it again'?

Contextual Overview

³¹ Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: ³² That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more. ³³ Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest. ³⁴ Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me. ³⁵ Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom. ³⁶ My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men. ³⁷ For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

which: Job 10:2, Psalms 19:12, Psalms 25:4, Psalms 25:5, Psalms 32:8, Psalms 139:23, Psalms 139:24, Psalms 143:8-10

if: Proverbs 28:13, Luke 3:8-14, Ephesians 4:22, Ephesians 4:25-28

Reciprocal: Genesis 38:26 - And he knew Genesis 42:21 - they said Exodus 10:16 - I have Leviticus 13:23 - General Leviticus 26:43 - and they Numbers 22:34 - I Have sinned Judges 10:15 - deliver Judges 13:8 - teach us 1 Samuel 6:3 - known Job 6:24 - Teach me Job 9:15 - I would Job 11:14 - put it far Job 33:23 - an interpreter Job 40:5 - but I will not Job 42:9 - did Psalms 86:11 - Teach Psalms 119:135 - and teach Lamentations 3:40 - search Daniel 4:27 - break Hosea 14:2 - General Hosea 14:8 - What Micah 7:9 - bear Acts 16:30 - brought 1 Corinthians 11:32 - we are Ephesians 4:28 - steal no more Hebrews 12:7 - endure

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[That which] I see not teach thou me,.... Which may be understood either of the chastisements of God, and his dealings with his people in a providential way, and of the design and use of them, which are sometimes unsearchable, and at most but a part of them only seen and known; it is meet to say to God, it is but a small part and portion of thy ways that is known by me; I can see but little into them: teach me more of thy mind and will in them, or else of sins and transgressions, the cause of chastisement; it is proper for an afflicted man to say unto God, I am conscious to myself of many sinful failings and infirmities, but there may be secret sins committed by me which have escaped my notice and observation; point them out to me, that I may be humbled for them, and make a free confession of them;

if I have done iniquity, I will do no more; that is, if I have committed any capital crime, any foul offence or gross enormity, for otherwise no man lives without sin, I sincerely repent of it, and will take care for the future, through divine grace, to do so no more.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That which I see not, teach thou me - That is, in regard to my errors and sins. No prayer could be more appropriate than this. It is language becoming every one who is afflicted, and who does not see clearly the reason why it is done. The sense is, that with a full belief that he is liable to error and sin, that he has a wicked and deceitful heart, and that God never afflicts without reason, he should go to him and ask him to show him “why” he has afflicted him. He should not complain or repine; he should not accuse God of injustice or partiality; he should not attempt to cloak his offences, but should go and entreat him to make him acquainted with the sins of heart and life which have led to these calamities. Then only will he be in a state of mind in which he will be likely to be profited by trials.

If I have done iniquity, I will do no more - Admitting the possibility that he had erred. Who is there that cannot appropriately use this language when he is afflicted?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 34:32. That which I see not — "What I do not know, teach thou me; wherein I have done iniquity, I will do so no more."