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23 or,[a] ‘Save me from the foe’s hand,’
or,[b] ‘Ransom me from the tyrants’ hand’?
24 Teach me, and I myself[c] will be silent;
and make me understand how I have gone astray.
25 How painful are upright words![d]
But[e] what does your reproof[f] reprove?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:23 Hebrew “and”
  2. Job 6:23 Hebrew “And”
  3. Job 6:24 Emphatic personal pronoun
  4. Job 6:25 Literally “words of uprightness”
  5. Job 6:25 Hebrew “And”
  6. Job 6:25 Literally “reproving from you”

23 deliver me from the hand of the enemy,
    rescue me from the clutches of the ruthless’?(A)

24 “Teach me, and I will be quiet;(B)
    show me where I have been wrong.(C)
25 How painful are honest words!(D)
    But what do your arguments prove?

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