Job 6:25

Job chapter 6 · verse 25 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?

King James Version · 1611

How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

American Standard Version · 1901

How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?

v.24Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

v.25This passage

v.26Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Ecclesiastes 12:10
The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written uprightly, even words of truth.
Proverbs 16:21
The wise in heart shall be called prudent; And the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
Job 21:34
How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?
Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken Islikeapples of gold in network of silver.
Job 16:3
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.