Job 6:25

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

Your words have upheld him who was falling, and you have made strong the feeble knees.

I might make you strong with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would spare you.

There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

The wise in heart shall be called prudent, and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

The preacher sought to find out pleasing words; and words of truth written by the upright.

Oh that you would stop speaking entirely! And it would be your wisdom.

Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you should answer?

How then do you comfort me in vain? Yea, in your answers remains transgression.

And if it is not so, who will make me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?

Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer and had condemned Job.