New King James Version
Job 6:25
25How forceful are right words! But what does your arguing 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 Living Translation (NLT)Honest words can be painful, but what do your criticisms amount to?
Context of Job 6:25
23Or, ‘Deliver me from the enemy’s hand’? Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of oppressors’? 24“Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; Cause me to understand wherein I have erred. How forceful are right words! But what does your arguing prove? 26Do you intend to rebuke my words, And the speeches of a desperate one, which are as wind? 27Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, And you undermine 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 upheld him who was stumbling, And you have strengthened the feeble knees;
- Job 16:5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief.
- Proverbs 12:18There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise promotes health.
- Proverbs 16:21The wise in heart will be called prudent, And sweetness of the lips increases learning.
- Proverbs 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.
- Proverbs 25:11A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold In settings of silver.
- Ecclesiastes 12:10The Preacher sought to find acceptable words; and what was written was upright—words of truth.
- Job 13:5Oh, that you would be silent, And it would be your wisdom!
- Job 16:3Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
- Job 21:34How then can you comfort me with empty words, Since falsehood remains in your answers?”
- Job 24:25“Now if it is not so, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech worth nothing?”
- Job 32:3Also against his three friends his wrath was aroused, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
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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