Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
New American Standard Bible
But what does your argument prove?
King James Version
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Holman Bible
But what does your rebuke prove?
International Standard Version
The truth can be painful, but what has your argument proven?
American Standard Version
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?
Amplified
“How painful are words of honesty.
But what does your argument prove?
Bible in Basic English
How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?
Darby Translation
How forcible are right words! but what doth your upbraiding reprove?
Julia Smith Translation
How forcible were words of uprightness! and what will reproving from you prove?
King James 2000
How forceful are right words! but what does your arguing prove?
Lexham Expanded Bible
How painful are {upright words}! But what does {your reproof} reprove?
Modern King James verseion
Right words are powerful, but what does your arguing argue?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
How steadfast are the words of truth! And which of you can rebuke or reprove them?
NET Bible
How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove?
New Heart English Bible
How forcible are words of uprightness. But your reproof, what does it reprove?
The Emphasized Bible
How pleasant are the sayings that are right! But what can a decision from you, decide?
Webster
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?
Youngs Literal Translation
How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
24 Teach me, and I will be quiet. And cause me to understand how I have erred. 25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove? 26 Do ye think to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of a man who is desperate are as wind?
Names
Cross References
Job 4:4
Thy words have upheld him who was falling, and thou have made firm the feeble knees.
Job 13:5
O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be your wisdom.
Job 16:3-5
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes thee that thou answer?
Job 21:34
How then ye comfort me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?
Job 24:25
And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?
Job 32:3
His anger was also kindled against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Proverbs 12:18
There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 16:21-24
The wise in heart shall be called prudent, and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.
Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is apples of gold in a network of silver.
Ecclesiastes 12:10-11
The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written uprightly--words of truth.