Job 6:25 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁵How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

Job 6:25 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 21:34
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
Job 4:4
Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Job 32:3
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Ecclesiastes 12:10-11
The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth. …
Proverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 22-30)

Poor Job goes on here to upbraid his friends with their unkindness and the hard usage they gave him. He here appeals to themselves concerning several things which tended both to justify him and to condemn them. If they would but think impartially, and speak as they thought, they could not but own, I. That, though he was necessitous, yet he was not craving, nor burdensome to his friends. Those that…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 25)

24-25. Irony. If you can “teach me” the right view, I am willing to be set right, and “hold my tongue”; and to be made to see my error. But then if your words be really the right words, how is it that they are so feeble? “Yet how feeble are the words of what you call the right view.” So the Hebrew is used (in Mi 2:10; 1:9). The English Version, “How powerful,” &c., does not agree so well with the…