Job 6:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ “Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have gone wrong.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ Teach me, and I will hold my peace; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

Common English Bible

²⁴ Instruct me and I’ll be quiet; inform me how I’ve erred.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ Teach me, and I will be silent, and if by chance I have been ignorant of anything, instruct me.

Job 6:24 Cross References

James 3:2

For all of us make many mistakes. Anyone who makes no mistakes in speaking is mature, able to keep the whole body in check with a bridle.

Proverbs 9:9

Give instruction to the wise, and they will become wiser still; teach the righteous, and they will gain in learning.

Job 10:2

I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.

Psalm 32:8

I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

Psalm 19:12

But who can detect one’s own errors? Clear me from hidden faults.

Job 34:32

teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

Job 33:1

“But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.

Job 5:27

See, we have searched this out; it is true. Hear, and know it for yourself.”

Proverbs 25:12

Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise rebuke to a listening ear.

Job 32:11

“See, I waited for your words; I listened for your wise sayings while you searched out what to say.

James 1:19

You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,

Job 6:23

Or, ‘Save me from an opponent’s hand’? Or, ‘Ransom me from the hand of oppressors’?

Job 6:25

How forceful are honest words! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

Job 13:23

How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.