Job 6:24 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Job 6:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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, bu...
Job 6:24 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Teach me, and I will (o) hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. (o) Show me where I have erred, and I will confess my sin.
Job 6:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Sorrowful Disappointment in his Friends. He begins by citing a proverb. The despairing man who is slipping from religion, looks for help and sympathy from his friends. The friends, however, h...
Job 6:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. Teach me - Show me where I am mistaken. Bring proper arguments to convince me of my errors; and you will soon fin...
Job 6:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. Irony. If you can teach me the right view, I am willing to be set right and hold my tongue, and to be made...
Job 6:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The First Speech of Job ( Job 6:7 ) 1-13. Job, smarting under the remarks of Eliphaz, which he feels are not appropriate to his case, renews and justifies his complaints. He bemoans the heaviness...
Job 6:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1-30 ; Job 7:1-21 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own heart because no channel outside self is provided for...
Job 6:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“A Deceitful Brook” Job 6:1-30 The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of h...
Job 6:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job's answer is a magnificent and terrible outcry. First, he speaks of his pain as a protest against the method of Eliphaz. His reply is not to the deduction which Eliphaz' argument suggested, but ra...
Job 6:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(14) В¶ To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. (15) My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they...
Job 6:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue ,.... Job having made his defence, and which he thought a sufficient one to acquit him of the charge against him; yet to show that he was not stubborn and flexibl...
Job 6:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. Ver. 24. Teach me, and I will hold my tongue ] If I be in an error, I am willing to be rectified. Hitherto you...
Job 6:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Teach me Instead of censuring and reproaching, instruct and convince me by solid arguments; and I will hold my tongue I will patiently hear and gladly receive your counsels; and cause me to unde...
Job 6:24 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ (vv.1-30) It is remarkable that Job, being in the painful condition he was, was still able to reply in such capable and stirring language to Eliphaz. He knew that Eliphaz...
Job 6:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance? 23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty? 24 Teach me, and I will hold m...
Job 6:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Teach me; instead of censuring and reproaching, instruct and convince me by solid arguments. I will hold my tongue; I will patiently hear and gladly receive your counsels; or, I will be silent; I...
Job 6:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Justifies his complaint ( Job 6:2 ). “O that my grief were thoroughly weighed,” &c. Job’s case neither apprehended nor appreciated by his friends. Desires ferventl...
Job 6:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 6:4 . The poison of the arrows absorbed his spirits. In 1822, when Campbel the missionary travelled in South Africa, a bushman shot one of his men in the back with a poisoned arrow. He languis...
Job 6:24 - The Biblical Illustrator

But Job answered and said. Job’s answer to Eliphaz We must come upon grief in one of two ways and Job seems to have come upon grief in a way that is to be deprecated. He came upon it late in li...
Job 6:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 6:1-18 . and 7. contain Job's reply to Eliphaz. In Job 6:1-18 . he confines himself to three points: (1) a justification of his "grief"— i.e. of his vexation and impatience...
Job 6:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Criticizes Eliphaz for his Conduct
Job 6:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 1:19 ; James 3:2 ; Job 10:2 ; Job 32:11 ; Job 32:15 ; Job 32:16 ; Job 33:1 ; Job 33:31-33 ; Job 34:32 ; Job 5:27 ; Proverbs 25:12 ; Proverbs 9:9 ; Psalms 19:12 ; Psalms 32:8 ; Ps...
Job 6:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Teach — Convince me by solid arguments. I will — I will patiently hear and gladly receive your counsels.

Job 6:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 6:24 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 6:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 6:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 6:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 6:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 6:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 6:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 6:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 6:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 6:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 6:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 6:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 6:24 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 6:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 6:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 6:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 6:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 6:24 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 6:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 6:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 6:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 6:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes