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Job 6:24 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" “Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error. "
Job 6:24
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
22 Did I ever say, ‘Give to me’? or, ‘Offer a present for me from your substance’?
23 or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand’? or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors’?
24 “Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.
25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
26 Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
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Job 6:1
"Then Job answered,"
Job 6:2
"“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!"
Job 6:3
"For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash."
Job 6:4
"For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me."
Job 6:5
"Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?"
Job 6:6
"Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?"
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