New English Translation
Job 6:25
25How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove?
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
23Or ‘Deliver me from the enemy’s power, and from the hand of tyrants ransom me’? 24“Teach me and I, for my part, will be silent; explain to me how I have been mistaken. How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove? 26Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind? 27Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.
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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 4:4Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.
- Job 16:5But I would strengthen you with my words; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
- Proverbs 12:18Speaking recklessly is like the thrusts of a sword, but the words of the wise bring healing.
- Proverbs 16:21The one who is wise in heart is called discerning, and kind speech increases persuasiveness.
- Proverbs 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love its use will eat its fruit.
- Proverbs 25:11Like apples of gold in settings of silver, so is a word skillfully spoken.
- Ecclesiastes 12:10The Teacher sought to find delightful words, and to write accurately truthful sayings.
- Job 13:5If only you would keep completely silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
- Job 16:3Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
- Job 21:34So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!”
- Job 24:25“If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
- Job 32:3With Job’s three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job 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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