24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
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For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. I 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. …
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-30)Poor Job goes on here to upbraid his friends with their unkindness and the hard usage they gave him. He here appeals to themselves concerning several things which tended both to justify him and to condemn them. If they would but think impartially, and speak as they thought, they could not but own, I. That, though he was necessitous, yet he was not craving, nor burdensome to his friends. Those that…
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