Job 6:25 Parallel Translations
NASB: "How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove? (NASB ©1995)
GWT: How painful an honest discussion can be! In correcting me, you correct yourselves!(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
ASV: How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?
BBE: How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?
DBY: How forcible are right words! but what doth your upbraiding reprove?
ERV: How forcible are words of uprightness! but what doth your arguing reprove?
JPS: How forcible are words of uprightness! But what doth your arguing argue?
WBS: 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?
YLT: How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?
Job 6:25 Cross References
XREF:Job 6:24 "Teach me, and I will be silent; And show me how I have erred.

Job 6:26 "Do you intend to reprove my words, When the words of one in despair belong to the wind? (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 6:25 How {p} forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
(p) He who has a good conscience does not shrink at the sharp words or reasonings of others, unless they are able to persuade him by reason.
WES: 6:25 Forcible - The words of truth have a marvellous power. Reprove - But there is no truth in your assertions or weight in your arguments.
MHC: 6:14-30 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, Heb 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 cease from man. Let us put all our confidence in the Rock of ages, not in broken reeds; in the Fountain of life, not in broken cisterns. The application is very close; for now ye are nothing. It were well for us, if we had always such convictions of the vanity of the creature, as we have had, or shall have, on a sick-bed, a death-bed, or in trouble of conscience. Job upbraids his friends with their hard usage. Though in want, he desired no more from them than a good look and a good word. It often happens that, even when we expect little from man, we have less; but from God, even when we expect much, we have more. Though Job differed from them, yet he was ready to yield as soon as it was made to appear that he was in error. Though Job had been in fault, yet they ought not to have given him such hard usage. His righteousness he holds fast, and will not let it go. He felt that there had not been such iniquity in him as they supposed. But it is best to commit our characters to Him who keeps our souls; in the great day every upright believer shall have praise of God.
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