Job 6:25

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Proverbs 25:11

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

Proverbs 18:21

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

Proverbs 12:18

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Job 32:3

He burned with anger also at Job’s three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

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 21:34

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

Job 13:5

Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!

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 gone astray.

Job 6:26

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

Job 27:12

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

Proverbs 15:23

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