Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove? New Living Translation Honest words can be painful, but what do your criticisms amount to? English Standard Version How forceful are upright words! But what does reproof from you reprove? Berean Standard Bible How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove? King James Bible How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? New King James Version How forceful are right words! But what does your arguing prove? New American Standard Bible “How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove? NASB 1995 “How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove? NASB 1977 “How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove? Legacy Standard Bible How painful are upright words! But what does your reproof prove? Amplified Bible “How painful are words of honesty. But what does your argument prove? Christian Standard Bible How painful honest words can be! But what does your rebuke prove? Holman Christian Standard Bible How painful honest words can be! But what does your rebuke prove? American Standard Version How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove? Aramaic Bible in Plain English Why do you reject the Word of truth, and who is it of you that humbles and rebukes? Brenton Septuagint Translation But as it seems, the words of a true man are vain, because I do not ask strength of you. Contemporary English Version The truth is always painful, but your arguments prove nothing. Douay-Rheims Bible Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me? English Revised Version How forcible are words of uprightness! but what doth your arguing reprove? GOD'S WORD® Translation How painful an honest discussion can be! In correcting me, you correct yourselves! Good News Translation Honest words are convincing, but you are talking nonsense. International Standard Version The truth can be painful, but what has your argument proven? JPS Tanakh 1917 How forcible are words of uprightness! But what doth your arguing argue? Literal Standard Version How powerful have been upright sayings, | And what reproof from you reproves? Majority Standard Bible How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove? New American Bible How painful honest words can be; yet how unconvincing is your argument! NET Bible How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove? New Revised Standard Version How forceful are honest words! But your reproof, what does it reprove? New Heart English Bible How forcible are words of uprightness. But your reproof, what does it reprove? Webster's Bible Translation How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? World English Bible How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove? Young's Literal Translation How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job Replies: My Complaint is Just…24Teach me, and I will be silent. Help me understand how I have erred. 25How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove? 26Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?… Cross References Job 6:24 Teach me, and I will be silent. Help me understand how I have erred. Job 6:26 Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair? Treasury of Scripture How forcible are right words! but what does your arguing reprove? forcible. Job 4:4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. Job 16:5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. Proverbs 12:18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. what doth. Job 13:5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. Job 16:3,4 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? … Job 21:34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? Jump to Previous Argue Arguing Argument Arguments Force Forceful Forcible Honest Painful Pleasing Powerful Prove Reproof Reprove Right Sayings Upbraiding Upright Uprightness WordsJump to Next Argue Arguing Argument Arguments Force Forceful Forcible Honest Painful Pleasing Powerful Prove Reproof Reprove Right Sayings Upbraiding Upright Uprightness WordsJob 6 1. Job shows that his complaints are not causeless.8. He wishes for death, wherein he is assured of comfort. 14. He reproves his friends of unkindness. (25) How forcible are right words !--"How forcible are words of uprightness! But what doth your reproof reprove? Open rebuke is better than secret love; better to be honestly and openly rebuked by you than be subject to the secret insinuations which are intended to pass for friendship."Verse 25. - How forcible are right words! literally, words of uprightness. Such words have a force that none can resist. If the charges made by Eliphaz had been right and true, and his arguments sound and just, then Job must have yielded to them, have confessed himself guilty, and bowed down with shame before his judges. But they had had no such constraining power. Therefore they were not "words of uprightness." But what doth your arguing reprove? literally, What doth your reproving reprove? That is - What exactly is it that ye think to be wrong in me? At what is your invective aimed? Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Howמַה־ (mah-) Interrogative Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what painful נִּמְרְצ֥וּ (nim·rə·ṣū) Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 4834: To press, to be pungent, vehement, to irritate [are] honest יֹ֑שֶׁר (yō·šer) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3476: Straightness, uprightness words! אִמְרֵי־ (’im·rê-) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 561: Something said But what וּמַה־ (ū·mah-) Conjunctive waw | Interrogative Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what does your argument יּוֹכִ֖יחַ (yō·w·ḵî·aḥ) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3198: To be right, reciprocal, to argue, to decide, justify, convict prove? הוֹכֵ֣חַ (hō·w·ḵê·aḥ) Verb - Hifil - Infinitive absolute Strong's 3198: To be right, reciprocal, to argue, to decide, justify, convict Links Job 6:25 NIVJob 6:25 NLT Job 6:25 ESV Job 6:25 NASB Job 6:25 KJV Job 6:25 BibleApps.com Job 6:25 Biblia Paralela Job 6:25 Chinese Bible Job 6:25 French Bible Job 6:25 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 6:25 How forcible are words of uprightness! 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