Verse 24
Job 6:24
English Revised Version
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Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Original Language Text
hebrew
ה֭וֹרוּ/נִי וַ/אֲנִ֣י אַחֲרִ֑ישׁ וּ/מַה שָּׁ֝גִ֗יתִי הָבִ֥ינוּ לִֽ/י
English Translation
They instructed me, and I was silent, and what I have spoken, let us understand.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 6 Context
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Then Job answered and said,
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Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
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For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: therefore have my words been rash.
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For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: the terrors...
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Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
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Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
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My soul refuseth to touch them; they are as loathsome meat to me.
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Oh that I might have my request; and that God (Elohim) would grant me the thing that I long for.
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Even that it would please God (Elohim) to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off...
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Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would exult in pain that spareth not: for I have not denied t...
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What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is mine end, at I should be patient?
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Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
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Is it not that I have no help in me, and that effectual working is driven quite from me?
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To him that is ready to faint kindness should be shewed from his friend; even to him that forsaketh...
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My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;
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Which are black by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow hideth itself:
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What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
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The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside; they go up into the waste, and perish.
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The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
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They were ashamed because they had hoped; they came thither, and were confounded.
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For now ye are nothing; ye see a terror, and are afraid.
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Did I say, Give unto me? or, offer a present for me of your substance?
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Or, Deliver me from the adversary’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?
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Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
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How forcible are words of uprightness! but what doth your arguing reprove?
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Do ye imagine to reprove words? seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind.
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Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
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Now therefore be pleased to look upon me; for surely I shall not lie to your face.
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Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
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Is there injustice on my tongue? cannot my taste discern mischievous things?
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