Job 6:25
Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 peace: and if I have been ignorant in any thing, instruct me.
26You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.
Cross References
Job 4:4Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees:
Job 16:3Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?
Job 21:34How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth ?
Job 27:12Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?
Proverbs 12:18There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 16:21The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and he that is sweet in words shall attain to greater things.
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 →