Job 6:25
How forcible are words of uprightness! But what doth your arguing argue?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
26Do ye hold words to be an argument, but the speeches of one that is desperate to be wind?
Cross References
Job 4:4Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Job 16:3Shall windy words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
Job 21:34How then comfort ye me in vain? And as for your answers, there remaineth only faithlessness?
Job 27:12Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye become altogether vain?
Proverbs 12:18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 16:21The wise in heart is called a man of discernment; 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 →