Job 6:25 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁵ How forceful are honest words! But what does reproof from you reprove?

More versions

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?

Job 6:25 Cross References

Job 13:5

Oh that you would keep silent, and it 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

Behold, 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, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

Job 4:4

Your words have upheld him who was 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 erred.

Job 6:26

Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?

Proverbs 12:18

There is one whose 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 a man, 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.