Job 6:25
How pleasant are straightforward words! but what doth arguing prove?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
In Context
24Teach me, and I will indeed remain silent; and wherein I erred give me to understand.
26Do ye think to reprove words, and [to regard] as wind the speeches of one that is despairing?
Cross References
Job 4:4Him that stumbled thy words used to uphold, and to sinking knees thou gavest vigor.
Job 16:3Shall there be any end to words of wind? or what compelleth thee that thou shouldst answer?
Job 21:34How then will ye comfort me with vanity? and of your answers there remaineth only deception.
Job 27:12Lo! ye yourselves have all beheld it: why is it then that ye deal in such vanities?
Proverbs 12:18There is some one that useth words [which are] like the thrusts of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is healing.
Proverbs 16:21The wise in heart is called a man of understanding; and the sweetness of the lips increaseth information.
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 →