Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?
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?
A Conservative Version
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
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?
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 Give me teaching and I will be quiet; and make me see my error. 25 How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments? 26 My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.
Names
Cross References
Job 4:4
He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.
Job 13:5
If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!
Job 16:3-5
May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
Job 21:34
Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?
Job 24:25
And if it is not so, now, who will make it clear that my words are false, and that what I say is of no value?
Job 32:3
And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.
Proverbs 12:18
There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue of the wise makes one well again.
Proverbs 16:21-24
The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.
Proverbs 25:11
A word at the right time is like apples of gold in a network of silver.
Ecclesiastes 12:10-11
The Preacher made search for words which were pleasing, but his writing was in words upright and true.