Job 6:25
How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
In Context
24Teach me, and I will be silent. Help me understand how I have erred.
26Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
Cross References
Job 4:4Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
Job 16:3Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
Job 21:34So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
Job 27:12Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?
Proverbs 12:18Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Proverbs 16:21The wise in heart are called discerning, and pleasant speech promotes instruction.
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 →