Job 6:25
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
World English Bible Updated
In The King James Version
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
In Context
24“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.
26Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
Cross References
Job 4:4Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.
Job 16:3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Job 21:34So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”
Job 27:12Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
Proverbs 12:18There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
Proverbs 16:21The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips 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 →