Job 6:25
How powerful are the words of truth! But what do your reproaches prove?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
In Context
24Convince me, and I will hold my peace; Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
26Do ye mean to censure words? The words of a man in despair are but wind.
Cross References
Job 4:4Thy words have upheld him that was falling, And thou hast given strength to feeble knees.
Job 16:3Will there ever be an end to words of wind? What stirreth thee up, that thou answerest?
Job 21:34Why then do ye offer your vain consolations? Your answers continue false.
Job 27:12Behold, ye yourselves have all seen it; Why then do ye cherish such vain thoughts?
Proverbs 12:18There is who babbleth like the piercing of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 16:21The wise in heart shall be called intelligent, And 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 →