Job 6:25 · KJV
“How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?”
— Job 6:25
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?
Job 6 — Context
Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
25How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, {which are} as wind?
27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig {a pit} for your friend. {ye overwhelm: Heb. ye cause to fall upon}
Cross References
Job 13:5
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Proverbs 16:21-24
The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
Ecclesiastes 12:10-11
The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and {that which was} written {was} upright, {even} words of truth. {acceptable...: Heb. words of delight}
Proverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise {is} health.
Job 32:3
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and {yet} had condemned Job.
Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken {is like} apples of gold in pictures of silver. {fitly...: Heb. spoken upon his wheels}
Job 16:3-5
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? {vain...: Heb. words of wind}
Job 4:4
Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.