Job 6:24-30

Job 6:24-30

[24] Teach  me, and I will hold my tongue:  and cause me to understand  wherein I have erred.  [25] How forcible  are right  words!  but what doth your arguing  [26] Do ye imagine  to reprove  words,  and the speeches  of one that is desperate,  which are as wind?  [27] Yea, ye overwhelm  the fatherless,  and ye dig  a pit for your friend.  [28] Now therefore be content,  look  upon me; for it is evident  unto you if I lie.  [29] Return,  I pray you, let it not be iniquity;  yea, return again,  my righteousness  is in it. [30] Is there  iniquity  in my tongue?  cannot my taste  discern  perverse things? 

What does Job 6:24-30 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

Next, Job invited his friends to identify the sin for which they believed God was punishing him. [1] So far Eliphaz had only alluded to it. Job welcomed specific honest criticism, not arguments based on insinuations ( Job 6:25). In Job 6:30 Job seems to be claiming the ability to know whether his afflictions were the result of sin or not, as a person can distinguish different tastes in his or her mouth.