Job 6:25
How pleasant are the sayings that are right! But what can a decision from you, decide?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
In Context
24Show me, and, I, will hold my peace, And, wherein I have erred, cause me to understand.
26To decide words, do ye intend, When, to the wind, are spoken the sayings of one in despair?
Cross References
Job 4:4Him that was stumbling, have thy words raised up, and, sinking knees, hast thou strengthened.
Job 16:3Is there to be an end to windy words? Or what so strongly exciteth thee, that thou must respond?
Job 21:34How then should ye comfort me with vanity, since, as for your replies, there lurketh, [in them] treachery?
Job 27:12Lo! ye, have, all of you, seen, Wherefore, then, is it, that ye are utterly without purpose?
Proverbs 12:18There is who babbleth, as with thrusts of a sword, but, the tongue of the wise, hath healing.
Proverbs 16:21The wise in heart, shall be called intelligent, and, sweetness of lips, increaseth persuasiveness.
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 →