Job 6:25
How forcible are right words! but what does your arguing reprove?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
In Context
24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Cross References
Job 4:4Your words have raised up him that was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.
Job 16:3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldens you that you answer?
Job 21:34How then comfort all of you me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?
Job 27:12Behold, all you yourselves have seen it; why then are all of you thus altogether vain?
Proverbs 12:18There is that speaks 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 increases 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 →