Job 6:25
Honest words are painful, but what do your arguments prove?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
In Context
24Explain this to me, and I'll be quiet. Show me where I'm wrong.
Cross References
Job 4:4Your advice has helped those who are stumbling not to fall, and you have strengthened those whose knees are weak.
Job 16:3Will your windy speeches never cease? What's bothering you that you have to answer me?
Job 21:34Why do you try to comfort me with worthless nonsense? Your answers are just a pack of lies!”
Job 27:12If all of you have recognized this, why do you talk such vain nonsense?
Proverbs 12:18Some people's hasty words cut like a knife, but the words of the wise bring healing.
Proverbs 16:21If you think wisely you'll be called perceptive; if you speak pleasantly you'll be persuasive.
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 →