Job 6:25
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.
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?
- KJV
- How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
- WEB
- How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
- ASV
- How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?
- DARBY
- How forcible are right words! but what doth your upbraiding reprove?
- BLB
- How painful are upright words! Yet what does your⁺ argument prove?
- ÅB
- Hvor kraftige er ikke rettsindige ord! Men hva gagn er det i en refselse fra dere?
- OTB
- Hvor vanskelig det er å høre ærlige ord!
Men hva etablerer dine argumenter? - B1930
- Hvor kraftige er ikke rettsindige ord! Men hvad gagn er det i en refselse fra eder?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 12:10–11
The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
Read in contextJob 16:3–5
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Read in contextJob 24:25
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
Read in contextJob 4:4
Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Read in contextProverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Read in contextJob 32:3
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Read in contextProverbs 16:21–24
The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
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