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Job 6:24

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue, and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. It seems doubtful under the scale of what pointing this should hang, whether it be joined to what he had brought in, Did I say, or whether the sentence is spoken disjoined from the preceding, so that it is said thereby in reproach, Teach me, and I will hold my tongue, and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. Which same however agrees with either pointing, for by neither does he depart from the path of sound meaning. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book VII ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Nor has he sought the help of instruction from them. So this is the meaning of: Have I said to you: "Teach me?" in speculative matters, "and I will say no more, and if perhaps I have been ignorant: Instruct me?" in practical actions.

Commentary on Job ↗