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New American Standard Bible
Job 6:25
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How painful honest words can be!But what does your rebuke prove?
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
How forceful are upright words! But what does reproof from you reprove?
Honest words are painful, but your arguments prove nothing.
How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove?
"How painful are words of honesty. But what does your argument prove?
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
Howe stedfast are the wordes of righteousnes? and what can any of you iustly reproue?
How painful are upright words!But what does your reproof prove?
How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?
The truth is always painful, but your arguments prove nothing.
Honest words are forceful indeed, but what do your arguments prove?
How forcible are right words! but what doth your upbraiding reprove?
Honest words are powerful, but your arguments prove nothing.
Why do you reject the words of truth? Who of you are able to rebuke and chastise?
Honest words are convincing, but you are talking nonsense.
How painful are upright words! But what does your reproof reprove?
Right words are powerful, but what does your arguing argue?
Wherfore blame ye then the wordes, that are well and truly spoken?
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?
How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?
How strong are the wordes of trueth? and which of you can rebuke or reproue them?
How forcible are words of uprightness! But what doth your arguing argue?
How forcible are right wordes? but what doeth your arguing reproue?
But as it seems, the words of a true man are vain, because I do not ask strength of you.
How forcible are words of uprightness! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Whi han ye depraued the wordis of trewthe? sithen noon is of you, that may repreue me.
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
How forceful are right words! But what does your arguing prove?
Honest words can be painful, but what do your criticisms amount to?
Honest words give pain. But what does your arguing prove?
How forceful are honest words! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
How pleasant are the sayings that are right! But what can a decision from you, decide?
Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me?
How forceful are honest words! But what does reproof from you reprove?
How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?
"How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
forcible: Job 4:4, Job 16:5, Proverbs 12:18, Proverbs 16:21-24, Proverbs 18:21, Proverbs 25:11, Ecclesiastes 12:10, Ecclesiastes 12:11
what doth: Job 13:5, Job 16:3, Job 16:4, Job 21:34, Job 24:25, Job 32:3
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 24:16 - Is this Job 6:6 - that which Job 12:2 - ye are the people Job 16:2 - heard Job 26:2 - helped Job 27:12 - altogether Job 32:15 - amazed Proverbs 24:26 - giveth a right answer
Gill's Notes on the Bible
How forcible are right words!.... That are according to right reason; such as may be called strong reasons, or bony arguments, as in
Isaiah 41:21; there are strength and weight in such words, reasonings, and arguments; they bring evidence and conviction with them, and are very powerful to persuade the mind to an assent unto them, and have great influence to engage to a profession or practice of what they are used for; such are more especially the words of God, the Scriptures of truth, the doctrines of the Gospel; these are right words, see Proverbs 8:6; they are not contrary to right reason, although above it; and are agreeably to sanctified reason, and received by it; they are according to the perfections of God, even his righteousness and holiness, and according to the law of God, and in no wise repugnant to it, which is the rule of righteousness; and they are doctrines according to godliness, and are far from encouraging licentiousness; and they are all strictly true, and must be right: and there is a force and strength in those words; they come with weight, especially when they come in demonstration of the Spirit and power of God; they are mighty, through God, for the pulling down the strong holds of sin, Satan, and self, and for the bringing of men to the obedience of Christ; to the quickening dead sinners, enlightening dark minds, softening hard hearts; renewing, changing, and transforming men into quite another temper and disposition of mind they formerly had; for the comforting and relieving souls in distress, and saints under affliction; and have so very wonderful an influence on the lives and conversations of those to whom they come, not in word only, but in power and in the Holy Ghost, as to teach them to deny all sin and ungodliness, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly: or, "how forcible are the words of an upright man!" a that is, sincere, impartial, and faithful; which Job suggests his friends were not: some think Job has respect to his own words, and render the clause, "what hardness", or "harshness", have "right words!" b Such as he believed his own were, and in which there were nothing hard and harsh, sharp and severe, or which might give just offence; such as his cursing the day in which he was born, or charging his friends with treachery and deceit: but rather he tacitly reflects upon the words and arguments of his friends; intimating, that though there is force and strength in right words, theirs were neither right nor forcible, but partial and unjust, and weak and impotent; which had no strength of reasoning in them, nor carried any conviction with them, as follows:
but what doth your arguing reprove? their arguments they had used with him had no strength in them; they were of no avail; they did not reprove or convince of any evil he had been guilty of, or any mistake he had made; they were weak, impertinent, and useless, and fell with no weight upon him, nor wrought any conviction in him.
a So Aquila apud Drusium. b מה נחרצו "quid duritiei habent verba rectitudinis", Schmidt; so Luther.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
How forcible are right words! - How weighty and impressive are words of truth! Job means that he was accustomed to feel their power, and to admit it on his soul. If their words were such, he would listen to them with profound attention, and in silence. The expression has a proverbial cast.
But what doth your arguing reprove? - Or rather, what doth the reproof from you reprove? or what do your reproaches prove? Job professes a readiness to listen to words of truth and wisdom; he complains that the language of reproach used by them was not adapted to instruct his understanding or to benefit his heart. As it was, he did not feel himself convinced, and was likely to derive no advantage from what they said.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 6:25. How forcible are right words — A well-constructed argument, that has truth for its basis, is irresistible.
But what doth your arguing reprove? — Your reasoning is defective, because your premises are false; and your conclusions prove nothing, because of the falsity of the premises whence they are drawn. The last clause, literally rendered, is, What reproof, in a reproof from you? As you have proved no fault you have consequently reproved no vice. Instead of מה נמרצו mah nimretsu, "how forcible," מה נמלצו mah nimletsu, "how savoury or pleasant," is the reading of two MSS., the Chaldee, and some of the rabbins. Both senses are good, but the common reading is to be preferred.
