Job 6:25
Howe stedfast are the wordes of righteousnes? and what can any of you iustly reproue?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
In Context
24Teach me, and I wil hold my tongue: and cause me to vnderstande, wherein I haue erred.
26Doe ye imagine to reproue wordes, that the talke of the afflicted should be as the winde?
Cross References
Job 4:4Thy wordes haue confirmed him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the weake knees.
Job 16:3Shall there be none ende of wordes of winde? or what maketh thee bold so to answere?
Job 21:34How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes?
Job 27:12Beholde, all ye your selues haue seene it: why then doe you thus vanish in vanitie?
Proverbs 12:18There is that speaketh wordes like the prickings of a sworde: but the tongue of wise men is health.
Proverbs 16:21The wise in heart shall bee called prudent: and the sweetenesse of the lippes shall increase doctrine.
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 →