Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and wherein I have erred, cause me to understand.
New American Standard Bible
And show me how I have erred.
King James Version
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Holman Bible
Help me understand what I did wrong.
International Standard Version
"Instruct me, and I'll remain silent. Help me understand where I've gone astray.
A Conservative Version
Teach me, and I will be quiet. And cause me to understand how I have erred.
American Standard Version
Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Amplified
“Teach me, and I will be silent;
And show me how I have erred.
Bible in Basic English
Give me teaching and I will be quiet; and make me see my error.
Darby Translation
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Julia Smith Translation
each ye me, and I will be silent: and what I erred in, cause me to understand.
King James 2000
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand how I have erred.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Teach me, and I myself will be silent; and make me understand how I have gone astray.
Modern King James verseion
Teach me, and I will be silent; and cause me to understand where I have gone astray.
NET Bible
"Teach me and I, for my part, will be silent; explain to me how I have been mistaken.
New Heart English Bible
"Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
The Emphasized Bible
Show me, and, I, will hold my peace, And, wherein I have erred, cause me to understand.
Webster
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand in what I have erred.
World English Bible
"Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Youngs Literal Translation
Shew me, and I -- I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.
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Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
23 To deliver me from the enemy's hand, or to save me from the power of the mighty? 24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and wherein I have erred, cause me to understand. 25 How steadfast are the words of truth! And which of you can rebuke or reprove them?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 19:12
Who can tell how oft he offendeth? O cleanse thou me from my secret faults.
Job 5:27
Lo, this we ourselves have proved by experience, and even this it is. Hearken thou to it also, that thou mayest take heed to thyself."
Job 10:2
and will say unto God: O do not condemn me; but show me the cause, wherefore thou contendest so with me.
Job 32:11
For when I had waited till ye made an end of your talking, and heard your wisdom, what arguments you made in your communication;
Job 32:15-16
For they where so abashed that they could not make answer, nor speak one word.
Job 33:1
Therefore hear my words, O Job, and hearken unto all that I will say:
Job 33:31-33
Mark well, O Job, and hear me: hold thee still until I have spoken.
Job 34:32
If I have gone amiss, inform me: if I have done wrong, I will leave off.
Psalm 32:8
I will inform thee, and teach thee in the way wherein thou shalt go; and I will guide thee with mine eye.
Psalm 39:1-2
{To the Chanter, for praising, a Psalm of David} I said, "I will take heed to my ways, that I offend not in my tongue. I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle, while the ungodly is in my sight."
Proverbs 9:9
Give a discrete man but an occasion, and he will be the wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase.
Proverbs 25:12
The correction of the wise is, to an obedient ear, a golden chain and a Jewel of gold.
James 1:19
Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
James 3:2
For in many things we sin all. If a man sin not in word, the same is a perfect man and able to tame all the body.