Job 6:24
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause mee to vnderstand wherein I haue erred.
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- Proverbs 9:9Rank 2 from verse 24
- Psalms 19:12Rank 5 from verse 24
- Psalms 39:1–2Rank 6 from verse 24
1I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
1¶ I sayd, I will take heede to my waies, that I sinne not with my tongue: I will keepe my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
2†I was dumbe with silence, I held my peace, euen from good, and my sorrow was stirred.
- Psalms 32:8Rank 9 from verse 24
- Job 32:15–16Rank 11 from verse 24
- Job 33:31–33Rank 12 from verse 24
31Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.
32If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
33If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.
31Marke well, O Iob, hearken vnto me, hold thy peace, and I wil speake.
32If thou hast any thing to say, answere me: speake, for I desire to iustifie thee.
33If not, hearken vnto me: holde thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisedome.
- Proverbs 25:12Rank 13 from verse 24
- James 1:19Rank 14 from verse 24
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Job 6:24
To instruct, inform, train, show, counsel, or communicate knowledge or doctrine.
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Sense 1: To grasp, seize, cling to, carry, wield, support, or keep fast, literally or figuratively. Sense 2: To keep, retain, possess, maintain, continue in, or adhere to. Sense 3: To restrain, confine, or keep back; to contain or have capacity. Sense 4: To regard, account, or judge. Sense 5: To conduct or celebrate an observance. Sense 6: To endure, prevail, or take effect. Sense 7: In hold one's peace or hold one's tongue, to remain silent. Sense 8: As a noun, a grasp or attachment; a place of confinement, refuge, security, or fortification.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
1. The organ of the mouth used for tasting and speech. 2. Speech, words, or a language. 3. A tongue-shaped projection or arm of land or water.
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Sense 1: A reason, ground, matter in dispute, or judicial case. Sense 2: As a verb, to make something happen.
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understand
To comprehend, perceive, discern, or know the meaning or significance of something.
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In what or which place, thing, time, state, action, respect, or matter.
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Past-tense or past-participial form of err (to miss the right way, in morals or religion; to deviate from the path or line of duty; to stray by design or mistake).
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23Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
23Or deliuer me from the enemies hand, or redeeme me from the hand of the mighty?
24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause mee to vnderstand wherein I haue erred.
Selected passage25How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
25How forcible are right wordes? but what doeth your arguing reproue?