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Selected Verse: Job 6:24 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Job 6:24 |
Strong Concordance |
Teach [03384] me, and I will hold my tongue [02790]: and cause me to understand [0995] wherein I have erred [07686]. |
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King James |
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Irony. If you can "teach me" the right view, I am willing to be set right, and "hold my tongue"; and to be made to see my error. But then if your words be really the right words, how is it that they are so feeble? "Yet how feeble are the words of what you call the right view." So the Hebrew is used (in Mic 2:10; Mic 1:9). The English Version, "How powerful," &c., does not agree so well with the last clause of the verse. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue - That is, give me any real instruction, or show me what is my duty, and I will be silent. By this he means that Eliphaz had really imparted no instruction, but had dealt only in the language of reproof. The sense is, "I would willingly sit and listen where truth is imparted, and where I could be enabled to see the reason of the divine dealings. If I could be made to understand where I have erred, I would acquiesce." |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
24 Teach me, and I will be silent,
And cause me to understand wherein I have failed.
25 How forcible are words in accordance with truth!
But what doth reproof from you reprove?
26 Do you think to reprove words?
The words of one in despair belong to the wind.
27 Ye would even cast lots for the orphan,
And traffic about your friend.
נמרצוּ, Job 6:25, in the signification of נמלצוּ (Psa 119:103), would suit very well: how smooth, delicate, sweet, are, etc. (Hirz., Ew., Schlottm.); but this meaning does not suit Job 16:3. Hupfeld, by comparison with mar, bitter, translates: quantumvis acerba; but מה may signify quidquid, though not quantumvis. Hahn compares the Arabic verb to be sick, and translates: in what respect are right words bad; but physical disease and ethical badness are not such nearly related ideas. Ebrard: honest words are not taken amiss; but with an inadmissible application of Job 16:3. Von Gerl. is best: how strong or forcible are, etc. מרץ is taken as related to פּרץ, in the signification to penetrate; Hiph. to goad; Niph. to be furnished with the property of penetrating, - used here of penetrating speech; Kg1 2:8, of a curse inevitably carried out; Mic 2:10, of unsparing destruction. Words which keep the straight way to truth, go to the heart; on the contrary, what avails the reproving from you, i.e., which proceeds from you? הוכח, inf. absol. as Pro 25:27, and in but a few other passages as subject; מכּם, as Job 5:15, the sword going forth out of their mouth. In Job 6:26 the waw introduces a subordinate adverbial clause: while, however, the words of one in despair belong to the wind, that they may be carried away by it, not to the judgment which retains and analyzes them, without considering the mood of which they are the hasty expression. The futt. express the extent to which their want of feeling would go, if the circumstances for it only existed; they are subjunctive, as Job 3:13, Job 3:16. גּורל, the lot, is to be supplied to תּפּילוּ, as Sa1 14:42. The verb כּרה, however, does not here signify to dig, so that שׁחת, a pit, should be supplied (Heiligst.), still less: dig out earth, and cast it on any one (Ebrard); but has the signification of buying and selling with על of the object, exactly like Job 39:27. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Teach - Convince me by solid arguments. I will - I will patiently hear and gladly receive your counsels. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Teach me - Show me where I am mistaken. Bring proper arguments to convince me of my errors; and you will soon find that I shall gladly receive your counsels, and abandon the errors of which I may be convicted. |
9 For her wound [04347] is incurable [0605]; for it is come [0935] unto Judah [03063]; he is come [05060] unto the gate [08179] of my people [05971], even to Jerusalem [03389].
10 Arise [06965] ye, and depart [03212]; for this is not your rest [04496]: because it is polluted [02930], it shall destroy [02254] you, even with a sore [04834] destruction [02256].
27 Doth the eagle [05404] mount up [01361] at thy command [06310], and make [07311] her nest [07064] on high [07311]?
42 And Saul [07586] said [0559], Cast [05307] lots between me and Jonathan [03129] my son [01121]. And Jonathan [03129] was taken [03920].
16 Or as an hidden [02934] untimely birth [05309] I had not been; as infants [05768] which never saw [07200] light [0216].
13 For now should I have lain still [07901] and been quiet [08252], I should have slept [03462]: then had I been at rest [05117],
26 Do ye imagine [02803] to reprove [03198] words [04405], and the speeches [0561] of one that is desperate [02976], which are as wind [07307]?
15 But he saveth [03467] the poor [034] from the sword [02719], from their mouth [06310], and from the hand [03027] of the mighty [02389].
27 It is not good [02896] to eat [0398] much [07235] honey [01706]: so for men to search [02714] their own glory [03519] is not glory [03519].
10 Arise [06965] ye, and depart [03212]; for this is not your rest [04496]: because it is polluted [02930], it shall destroy [02254] you, even with a sore [04834] destruction [02256].
8 And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei [08096] the son [01121] of Gera [01617], a Benjamite [01145] of Bahurim [0980], which cursed [07043] me with a grievous [04834] curse [07045] in the day [03117] when I went [03212] to Mahanaim [04266]: but he came down [03381] to meet [07125] me at Jordan [03383], and I sware [07650] to him by the LORD [03068], saying [0559], I will not put thee to death [04191] with the sword [02719].
3 Shall vain [07307] words [01697] have an end [07093]? or what emboldeneth [04834] thee that thou answerest [06030]?
3 Shall vain [07307] words [01697] have an end [07093]? or what emboldeneth [04834] thee that thou answerest [06030]?
103 How sweet [04452] are thy words [0565] unto my taste [02441]! yea, sweeter than honey [01706] to my mouth [06310]!
25 How forcible [04834] are right [03476] words [0561]! but what doth your arguing [03198] reprove [03198]?