Job 6:24
Good News Translation
All right, teach me; tell me my faults. I will be quiet and listen to you.

New Revised Standard Version
“Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have gone wrong.

Contemporary English Version
What have I done wrong? Show me, and I will keep quiet.

New American Bible
Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have erred.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and if I have been ignorant of any thing, instruct me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and if I have been ignorant of any thing, instruct me.

Teach me.

Job 5:27 Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.

Job 32:11,15,16 For I have waited for your words, I have given ear to your wisdom, as long as you were disputing in words. . . .

Job 33:1,31-33 Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words. . . .

Job 34:32 If I have erred, teach thou me: if I have spoken iniquity, I will add no more.

Psalm 32:8 I will give thee understanding, and I will instruct thee in this way, in which thou shalt go: I will fix my eyes upon thee.

Proverbs 9:9 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is prudence.

Proverbs 25:12 As an earring of gold and a bright pearl, so is he that reproveth the wise, and the obedient ear.

James 1:19 You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger.

I will.

Psalm 39:1,2 Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David. [2] I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set a guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me. . . .

James 3:2 For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. He is able also with a bridle to lead about the whole body.

cause me.

Job 10:2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so?

Psalm 19:12 Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord:

Context
Job Replies: My Complaint is Just
23Or deliver me from the hand of the enemy, and rescue me out of the hand of the mighty? 24Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and if I have been ignorant of any thing, instruct me.25Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me?…
Cross References
Job 6:23
Or deliver me from the hand of the enemy, and rescue me out of the hand of the mighty?

Job 6:25
Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me?

Psalm 39:1
Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David. [2] I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my tongue. I have set a guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against me.

Job 6:23
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