Job 6:25
How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
In Context
24Shew me, and I — I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.
26For reproof — do you reckon words? And for wind — sayings of the desperate.
Cross References
Job 4:4The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees thou dost strengthen.
Job 16:3Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?
Job 21:34And how do ye comfort me [with] vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?
Job 27:12Lo, ye — all of you — have seen, And why [is] this — ye are altogether vain?
Proverbs 12:18A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.
Proverbs 16:21To the wise in heart is called, 'Intelligent,' And sweetness of 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 →