“However, even in such a condition, Job does not refuse to learn. "You may say something useful. I will be silent, if you speak helpful words." But they could not, to be sure, present evidence, but simply proceeded through conjectures. And since Job's life was manifestly full of virtue, they supposed that it was not th…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 6:24A
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24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
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22Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
23Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
— Job 6:24 —
25How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?