Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why you contend with me.
How many are my iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst you searched out what to say.
Why, Job, I pray you, hear my speeches, and listen to all my words.
That which I see not teach you me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
See this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know you it for your good.
Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
How forcible are right words! but what does your arguing reprove?
Who can understand his errors? cleanse you me from secret faults.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: I will guide you with my eye.
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover on an obedient ear.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Why, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
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.