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Job 6:24 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing-and how to apply it today
Translation: King James Version
" Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. "
Job 6:24
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
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From This Chapter
Job 6:1
"But Job answered and said,"
Job 6:2
"Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!"
Job 6:3
"For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up."
Job 6:4
"For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array"
Job 6:5
"Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?"
Job 6:6
"Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?"
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