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New American Standard Bible
Job 6:24
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Teach me, and I will be silent.Help me understand what I did wrong.
"Teach me, and I will hold my shalom; Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
"Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have gone astray.
"Teach me, and I will be quiet. Show me where I have been wrong.
"Teach me and I, for my part, will be silent; explain to me how I have been mistaken.
"Teach me, and I will be silent; And show me how I have erred.
"Teach me, and I will hold my peace; Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Teach me, and I wil hold my tongue: & cause me to vnderstande, wherein I haue erred.
"Instruct me, and I will be silent;And cause me to understand how I have erred.
Teach me, and I will be silent. Help me understand how I have erred.
What have I done wrong? Show me, and I will keep quiet.
"Teach me, and I will be silent. Make me understand how I am at fault.
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
"So now, teach me, and I will be quiet. Show me what I have done wrong.
Teach me, and I will be silent; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
All right, teach me; tell me my faults. I will be quiet and listen to you.
Teach me, and I myself will be silent; and make me understand how I have gone astray.
Teach me and I will be silent; and cause me to understand in what I have erred.
Teach me and I will holde my tonge: and yf I do erre, shewe me wherin.
Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Give me teaching and I will be quiet; and make me see my error.
Teache me, and I will hold my tong: and wherin I haue erred; cause me to vnderstande.
Teach me, and I will hold my peace; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause mee to vnderstand wherein I haue erred.
Teach ye me, and I will be silent: if in anything I have erred, tell me.
Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Teche ye me, and Y schal be stille; and if in hap Y vnknew ony thing, teche ye me.
Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand in what I have erred.
"Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Teach me, and I will keep quiet. Show me what I have done wrong.
"Teach me, and I will be quiet. Show me where I have been wrong.
"Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have gone wrong.
Show me, and, I, will hold my peace, And, wherein I have erred, cause me to understand.
Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and if I have been ignorant of any thing, instruct me.
"Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have erred.
Shew me, and I -- I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.
"Confront me with the truth and I'll shut up, show me where I've gone off the track. Honest words never hurt anyone, but what's the point of all this pious bluster? You pretend to tell me what's wrong with my life, but treat my words of anguish as so much hot air. Are people mere things to you? Are friends just items of profit and loss?
"Teach me, and I will be silent; And show me how I have erred.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Teach me: Job 5:27, Job 32:11, Job 32:15, Job 32:16, Job 33:1, Job 33:31-33, Job 34:32, Psalms 32:8, Proverbs 9:9, Proverbs 25:12, James 1:19
I will: Psalms 39:1, Psalms 39:2, James 3:2
cause me: Job 10:2, Psalms 19:12
Reciprocal: Job 12:2 - ye are the people
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue,.... Job having made his defence, and which he thought a sufficient one to acquit him of the charge against him; yet to show that he was not stubborn and flexible, but was open to conviction, and ready to attend and hearken to what might be further said, desires to be taught and instructed in the way of his duty; suggesting that, upon being convinced of his mistakes, he should ingenuously acknowledge them: good men are desirous of being taught both of God and men; they are not above instruction, or think themselves wiser than their teachers; they are willing to receive knowledge, not only from their superiors, but from their equals, and even from those that are inferior to them, as Job from his friends, though they had been unkind to him, and bore very hard upon him; and he promises that while they were speaking he would be silent, and not noisy, and clamorous, nor interrupt nor contradict them; but would patiently and attentively listen to what they said, and seriously consider it, and weigh it well in his mind; and, should he be convinced thereby, would no longer continue his complaints unto God, nor murmur at his providences; and would cease reflecting on them his friends, and no more charge them with deceit, perfidy, and unkindness; and by his silence would acknowledge his guilt, and not pertinaciously stand in an evil matter, but lay his hand on his mouth; hold his tongue, as our English phrase is, a Graecism z; that is, be silent, as in Hebrew; and even take shame to himself, and in this way confess his iniquity, and do so no more:
and cause me to understand wherein I have erred; not that he allowed that he was in an error; for all that he says, both before and after, shows that he thought himself free from any; only, that whereas there was a possibility that he might be in one, he should be glad to have it pointed out; for he would not willingly and obstinately continue therein: error is common to human nature; the best of men are liable to mistakes; and those are so frequent and numerous, that many of them escape notice; "who can understand his errors?" Psalms 19:12; wherefore wise and good men will esteem it a favour to have their errors pointed out to them, and their mistakes rectified; and it becomes men of capacity and ability to take some pains to do this, since he that converts one that has erred, whether in principle or practice, saves a soul from death, and covers a multitude of sins; James 5:19; Job is desirous, that if he had imbibed or uttered any error in principle, any thing unbecoming the Divine Being, contrary to his perfections, or to the holy religion which he professed, or was guilty of any in practice, in his conduct and behaviour, especially under the present providence, that it might be clearly made out unto him, and he should at once frankly and freely own it, retract and relinquish it.
z κρατων της γλωσσης, Aelian. Var. Hist. l. 2. c. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Teach 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.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 6:24. Teach 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.
