EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 6:25
25True words may give pain to the person who listens to them. But the things that you say against me mean nothing.
Job 6:25 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
- New International Version (NIV)How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove?
- English Standard Version (ESV)How forceful are upright words! But what does reproof from you reprove?
- New King James Version (NKJV)How forceful are right words! But what does your arguing prove?
Context of Job 6:25
23I have not asked you to save me from the power of my enemy. Or to pay cruel people to let me go free. 24Teach me the truth, and I will listen carefully. Explain to me the mistakes that I have made. True words may give pain to the person who listens to them. But the things that you say against me mean nothing. 26You are warning me because of what I say. I have no hope and you think that my words are empty. 27You would play a game to win a child who has no family. You would even sell your friends to become rich yourselves.
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מַה־נִּמְרְצ֥וּ אִמְרֵי־יֹ֑שֶׁר וּמַה־יּוֹכִ֖יחַ הוֹכֵ֣חַ מִכֶּֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 6:25
- Job 4:4With your words, you have saved people from danger. You have helped people who are in trouble to be brave.
- Job 16:5But, instead, I would help you to be strong. I would say things to comfort you.
- Proverbs 12:18If you speak in a careless way, you may hurt other people. But when wise people speak, it makes people feel well.
- Proverbs 16:21If you have wise thoughts, people will say that you know what is right. If you speak kind words, people will accept your teaching.
- Proverbs 18:21Words have the power to bring life or death. So be careful if you talk a lot!
- Proverbs 25:11A wise word that you speak at the right time is a beautiful thing. It is like a gold apple on a silver plate.
- Ecclesiastes 12:10The Teacher tried to find the right words, so that he could show the true meaning of what he wrote.
- Job 13:5It would be better if you said nothing. That would be a wise thing for you to do.
- Job 16:3Please stop speaking useless words. Why do you talk to me like that?
- Job 21:34So your useless words do not comfort me. Your answers are all lies!’
- Job 24:25What I have said is true. Nobody can say that I am telling lies. You cannot think that my words are useless.’
- Job 32:3Elihu was also angry with Job's three friends. They had not been able to find an answer to Job's problem. But they still said that Job was guilty.
Commentaries on Job 6:25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 25How forcible are right words - A well-constructed argument, that has truth for its basis, is irresistible. But what doth your arguing reprove? - Your reasoning is defective, because your premises are false; and your conclusions prove nothing, because of the falsity of the premises whence they are drawn. The last clause, literally rendered, is, What reproof, in a reproof from you? As you have proved no fault you have consequently reproved no vice. Instead…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 25How forcible are right words! - How weighty and impressive are words of truth! Job means that he was accustomed to feel their power, and to admit it on his soul. If their words were such, he would listen to them with profound attention, and in silence. The expression has a proverbial cast. But what doth your arguing reprove? - Or rather, what doth the reproof from you reprove? or what do your reproaches prove? Job professes a readiness to listen to words…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-30Verses 14-30 In his prosperity Job formed great expectations from his friends, but now was disappointed. This he compares to the failing of brooks in summer. Those who rest their expectations on the creature, will find it fail when it should help them; whereas those who make God their confidence, have help in the time of need, He 4:16. Those who make gold their hope, sooner or later will be ashamed of it, and of their confidence in it. It is our wisdom to…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-27Job and his friends might have shared a covenant (special agreement) of loyalty and faith (Hebrew khesed; see Genesis 21:23; Exodus 15:13; 1 Chronicles 16:34). This bond would have made them like brothers, those who protect, and friends he could trust (Job 6:14–15; 6:21–23, 27). If they were in a covenant with one another, Job was accusing his friends of violating their covenant with him.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 24-2524-25. Irony. If you can "teach me" the right view, I am willing to be set right, and "hold my tongue"; and to be made to see my error. But then if your words be really the right words, how is it that they are so feeble? "Yet how feeble are the words of what you call the right view." So the Hebrew is used (in Mi 2:10; 1:9). The English Version, "How powerful," &c., does not agree so well with the last clause of the verse.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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