Job 6:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

ה֭וֹרוּנִי וַאֲנִ֣י אַחֲרִ֑ישׁ וּמַה־שָּׁ֝גִ֗יתִי הָבִ֥ינוּ לִֽי׃

Transliteration

hôrûnî waʾănî ʾaḥărîš ûmah-šāgîtî hābînû lî

Grammar Details

• *hôrûnî*: Hiphil imperative, masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - teach me
• *waʾănî*: conjunction + 1st person singular pronoun - and I
• *ʾaḥărîš*: Hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular - I will be silent
• *ûmah-šāgîtî*: conjunction + interrogative + Qal perfect, 1st person singular - and what I have erred
• *hābînû*: Hiphil imperative, masculine plural - make understand
• *lî*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - to me

Word Meanings

• *yārâ*: to teach/instruct/direct
• *ḥāraš*: to be silent/inactive/speechless
• *šāgâ*: to go astray/err/wander
• *bîn*: to understand/discern/perceive

Referenced Verses

• Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
• Ps 19:12 : 12 Who can discern [his] errors? Clear thou me from hidden [faults].
• Job 10:2 : 2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me.
• Job 32:11 : 11 Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your reasonings, Whilst ye searched out what to say.
• Job 33:1 : 1 Howbeit, Job, I pray thee, hear my speech, And hearken to all my words.
• Ps 39:1-2 : 1 For the Chief Musician, for 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. 2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred.
• Prov 9:9 : 9 Give [instruction] to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
• Prov 25:12 : 12 [ As] an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, [So is] a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
• Jas 1:19 : 19 Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
• Job 33:31-33 : 31 Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: Hold thy peace, and I will speak. 32 If thou hast anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire to justify thee. 33 If not, hearken thou unto me: Hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom.
• Job 34:32 : 32 That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?
• Job 32:15-16 : 15 They are amazed, they answer no more: They have not a word to say. 16 And shall I wait, because they speak not, Because they stand still, and answer no more?
• Ps 32:8 : 8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee.
• Job 5:27 : 27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.