Job 6:25

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

A word from you has supported those who have stumbled, and has strengthened faltering knees.

and encourage you with what I have to say; my words of comfort would lessen your pain.

Some speak rashly like the cutting of a sword, but what the wise say promotes healing.

The wise-hearted person is told to be discerning, and that pleasant speech promotes instruction.

The power of the tongue is life and death those who love to talk will eat what it produces.

Like golden apples set in silver is a word spoken at the right time.

The Teacher searched to find appropriate expressions, and what is written here is right and truthful.

I wish you'd all just shut up. Then at least you would appear to be wise.

Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing?

How then, can you console me so worthlessly? What is left of your answers is treachery."

If this weren't so, who can prove that I'm a liar by showing that there's nothing to what I'm saying?"

Furthermore, he was furious with his three friends because they had not answered Job, but instead had condemned him.