How forceful are right words! but what does your arguing prove?
O that you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
How then do you comfort me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?
Behold, all you yourselves have seen it; why then are you thus altogether vain?
Also against his three friends was his wrath aroused, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Your words have upheld him that was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand how I have erred.
Do you intend to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
There is one that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise brings health.
A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
