Job 6:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ How forceful are honest words! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ How forcible are right words! But what doth your arguing reprove?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ How forcible are words of straightforward speech! But what does your arguing argue and prove or your reproof reprove?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?

Common English Bible

²⁵ How painful are truthful words, but what do your condemnations accomplish?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ Why have you diminished the words of truth, when there is none of you who is able to offer proof against me?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me?

Job 6:25 Cross References

Job 13:5

If you would only keep silent, that would be your wisdom!

Job 21:34

How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”

Job 24:25

If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?”

Job 27:12

All of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

Job 32:3

he was angry also at Job’s three friends because they had found no answer, though they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

Job 4:4

Your words have supported those who were stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.

Job 6:24

“Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have gone wrong.

Job 6:26

Do you think that you can reprove words, as if the speech of the desperate were wind?

Proverbs 12:18

Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 15:23

To make an apt answer is a joy to anyone, and a word in season, how good it is!

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Proverbs 25:11

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.