Job 6:25
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
King James Version
In Context
24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Cross References
Job 4:4Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Job 16:3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Job 21:34How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
Job 27:12Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
Proverbs 12:18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 16:21The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the 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 →