Parallel Verses
World English Bible
"Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and wherein I have erred, cause me to understand.
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Shew me, and I -- I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:24
Prayers for Job 6:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
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 wherein I have erred. 25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 19:12
Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
Job 5:27
Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good."
Job 10:2
I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
Job 32:11
"Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.
Job 32:15-16
"They are amazed. They answer no more. They don't have a word to say.
Job 33:1
"However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.
Job 33:31-33
Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak.
Job 34:32
Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
Psalm 32:8
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
Psalm 39:1-2
I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."
Proverbs 9:9
Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 25:12
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.
James 1:19
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
James 3:2
For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.