Job 6:25
How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
In Context
24Give me teaching and I will be quiet; and make me see my error.
26My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.
Cross References
Job 4:4He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.
Job 16:3May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
Job 21:34Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?
Job 27:12Truly, you have all seen it yourselves; why then have you become completely foolish?
Proverbs 12:18There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue of the wise makes one well again.
Proverbs 16:21The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased.
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 →