How forcible are right words! But what doth your arguing reprove?
How forcible are words of straightforward speech! But what does your arguing argue and prove or your reproof reprove?
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?
How painful are truthful words, but what do your condemnations accomplish?
Why have you diminished the words of truth, when there is none of you who is able to offer proof against me?
Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me?
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it should be your wisdom.
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
A man hath 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 pictures of silver.