24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
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24 Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
24 Shew me, and I -- I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.
24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
24 "Teach me, and I will hold my peace; Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
24 Give me teaching and I will be quiet; and make me see my error.
For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak. If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee. If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.
That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
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Commentary on Job 6 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 6
Eliphaz concluded his discourse with an air of assurance; very confident he was that what he had said was so plain and so pertinent that nothing could be objected in answer to it. But, though he that is first in his own cause seems just, yet his neighbour comes and searches him. Job is not convinced by all he had said, but still justifies himself in his complaints and condemns him for the weakness of his arguing.
It must be owned that Job, in all this, spoke much that was reasonable, but with a mixture of passion and human infirmity. And in this contest, as indeed in most contests, there was fault on both sides.
Job 6:1-7
Eliphaz, in the beginning of his discourse, had been very sharp upon Job, and yet it does not appear that Job gave him any interruption, but heard him patiently till he had said all he had to say. Those that would make an impartial judgment of a discourse must hear it out, and take it entire. But, when he had concluded, he makes his reply, in which he speaks very feelingly.
Job 6:8-13
Ungoverned passion often grows more violent when it meets with some rebuke and check. The troubled sea rages most when it dashes against a rock. Job had been courting death, as that which would be the happy period of his miseries, ch. 3. For this Eliphaz had gravely reproved him, but he, instead of unsaying what he had said, says it here again with more vehemence than before; and it is as ill said as almost any thing we meet with in all his discourses, and is recorded for our admonition, not our imitation.
Job 6:14-21
Eliphaz had been very severe in his censures of Job; and his companions, though as yet they had said little, yet had intimated their concurrence with him. Their unkindness therein poor Job here complains of, as an aggravation of his calamity and a further excuse of his desire to die; for what satisfaction could he ever expect in this world when those that should have been his comforters thus proved his tormentors?
Job 6:22-30
Poor Job goes on here to upbraid his friends with their unkindness and the hard usage they gave him. He here appeals to themselves concerning several things which tended both to justify him and to condemn them. If they would but think impartially, and speak as they thought, they could not but own,