How forceful are honest words! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
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?
If you would only keep silent, that would be your wisdom!
How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”
If it is not so, who will prove me a liar, and show that there is nothing in what I say?”
All of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
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.
Your words have supported those who were stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
“Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have gone wrong.
Do you think that you can reprove words, as if the speech of the desperate were wind?
Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
To make an apt answer is a joy to anyone, and a word in season, how good it is!
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.