Job 6:25
Why have you diminished the words of truth, when there is none of you who is able to offer proof against me?
Catholic Public Domain 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 silent, and if by chance I have been ignorant of anything, instruct me.
26You prepare speeches as so much noise, and you offer words into the wind.
Cross References
Job 4:4Your words have reassured the wavering, and you have fortified the trembling knees.
Job 16:3Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?
Job 21:34Therefore, how long will you console me in vain, when your answer is shown to be repugnant to truth?
Job 27:12Behold, you know all this, and so why do you speak vain things without a reason?
Proverbs 12:18He who makes promises is also jabbed, as if with a sword, in conscience. But the tongue of the wise is reasonable.
Proverbs 16:21Whoever is wise in heart shall be called prudent. And whoever is sweet in eloquence shall attain to what is greater.
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 →