New International Version
Job 6:25
25How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove?
Job 6:25 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
- 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?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Honest words can be painful, but what do your criticisms amount to?
Context of Job 6:25
23deliver me from the hand of the enemy, rescue me from the clutches of the ruthless’? 24“Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong. How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove? 26Do you mean to correct what I say, and treat my desperate words as wind? 27You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.
Read all of Job 6Job 6:25 word by word
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; you have strengthened faltering knees.
- Job 16:5But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
- Proverbs 12:18The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
- Proverbs 16:21The wise in heart are called discerning, and gracious words promote instruction.
- Proverbs 18:21The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
- Proverbs 25:11Like apples of gold in settings of silver is a ruling rightly given.
- Ecclesiastes 12:10The Teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true.
- Job 13:5If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
- Job 16:3Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?
- Job 21:34“So how can you console me with your nonsense? Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”
- Job 24:25“If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?”
- Job 32:3He was also angry with the three friends, because they had found no way to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
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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