Teach me, and I shall be silent. And show me where I have gone astray.
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.
Give instruction to a wise one, and he is wiser still; Teach a righteous one, and he increases in learning.
I say to Eloah, ‘Do not declare me wrong, show me why You strive with me.
“Let Me instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; Let Me counsel, My eye be on you.
Who discerns mistakes? Declare me innocent from those that are secret,
‘Teach me what I do not see. If I have done unrighteousness, I shall not do so again’?
“And yet, O Iyoḇ
Look, this we have searched out, it is so. Hear it, and know for yourself.”
A ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, Is a wise one’s reproof to an ear that hears.
Look, I waited for your words, I listened to your reasonings, while you searched out what to say.
So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,
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?
How many are my crookednesses and sins? Let me know my transgression and my sin.