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

25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

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