Parallel Verses
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?
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 silent; make me understand how I have gone astray.
25
But what does your argument prove?
Names
Cross References
Job 4:4
Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
Job 13:5
Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
Job 16:3-5
Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Job 21:34
How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood."
Job 24:25
If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?"
Job 32:3
He burned with anger also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.
Proverbs 12:18
There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Proverbs 16:21-24
The wise of heart is called discerning, and sweetness of speech increases persuasiveness.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.
Ecclesiastes 12:10-11
The Preacher sought to find words of delight, and uprightly he wrote words of truth.