Job 6:24

Job chapter 6 · verse 24 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.23Or, Deliver me from the adversary’s hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?

v.24This passage

v.25How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • James 3:2

    For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

  • Proverbs 9:9

    Giveinstructionto a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

  • Job 32:15

    They are amazed, they answer no more: They have not a word to say.

  • Psalms 19:12

    Who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.

  • James 1:19

    Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

  • Psalms 39:1

    I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me.