Job 6:25
How forcible are right words! but what doth your upbraiding reprove?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
In Context
24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
26Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.
Cross References
Job 4:4Thy words have upholden him that was stumbling, and thou hast braced up the bending knees:
Job 16:3Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
Job 21:34How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.
Job 27:12Behold, ye yourselves have all seen [it]; and why are ye thus altogether vain?
Proverbs 12:18There is that babbleth like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 16:21The wise in heart is called intelligent, and the sweetness of the lips increaseth 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 →