24 Teach me, and I will [a]hold my tongue: and cause me to understand, wherein I have erred.

25 How [b]steadfast are the words of righteousness? and what can any of you justly reprove?

26 Do ye imagine to reprove [c]words, that the talk of the afflicted should be as the wind?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:24 Show me wherein I have erred, and I will confess my fault.
  2. Job 6:25 He that hath a good conscience doth not shrink at the sharp words or reasonings of others, except they be able to persuade him by reason.
  3. Job 6:26 Do you cavil at my words because I should be thought to speak foolishly, which am now in misery?

24 “Teach me, and I will be quiet;(A)
    show me where I have been wrong.(B)
25 How painful are honest words!(C)
    But what do your arguments prove?
26 Do you mean to correct what I say,
    and treat my desperate words as wind?(D)

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