Job 6:25
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
In Context
24Teach me, and I will be quiet. And cause me to understand how I have erred.
26Do ye think to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of a man who is desperate are as wind?
Cross References
Job 4:4Thy words have upheld him who was falling, and thou have made firm the feeble knees.
Job 16:3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes thee that thou answer?
Job 21:34How then ye comfort me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?
Job 27:12Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it. Why then have ye become altogether vain?
Proverbs 12:18There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 16:21The wise in heart shall be called prudent, and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.
Matthew Henry on Job 6:23-30
22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance? 23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty? 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 reprove? 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… Read the whole commentary →