Teach me, and I shall be silent. And show me where I have gone astray.
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Teach me, and I will hold my peace; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Instruct me and I’ll be quiet; inform me how I’ve erred.
Teach me, and I will be silent, and if by chance I have been ignorant of anything, instruct me.
Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and if I have been ignorant in any thing instruct me.
I say to Eloah, ‘Do not declare me wrong, show me why You strive with me.
How many are my crookednesses and sins? Let me know my transgression and my sin.
Look, I waited for your words, I listened to your reasonings, while you searched out what to say.
“And yet, O Iyoḇ, please hear my speech and listen to all my words.
Teach me what I do not see. If I have done unrighteousness, I shall not do so again’?
Look, this we have searched out, it is so. Hear it, and know for yourself.”
or, ‘Rescue me from the hand of the enemy?’ or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of oppressors’?
Words of uprightness are harsh! But what does your reproving reprove?
Who discerns mistakes? Declare me innocent from those that are secret,
“Let Me instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; Let Me counsel, My eye be on you.
A ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, Is a wise one’s reproof to an ear that hears.
Give instruction to a wise one, and he is wiser still; Teach a righteous one, and he increases in learning.
So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,
For we all stumble in many matters. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the entire body.