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; and cause me to understand in what I have erred.
25
But what does your argument prove?
Names
Cross References
Job 4:4
Thy words have upheld the one that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Job 13:5
O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be unto you instead of wisdom.
Job 16:3-5
Shall vain words have an end? Or what is it that emboldens thee to answer?
Job 21:34
How then do ye comfort me in vain, given that your answers remain as falsehood?
Job 24:25
And if it is not so now, who will make me a liar or reduce my speech to nothing?
Job 32:3
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Proverbs 12:18
There are those that speak like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is medicine.
Proverbs 16:21-24
The wise in heart is called a man of understanding; and the sweetness of the lips shall increase doctrine.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those that love it shall eat its fruit.
Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold inscribed with silver.
Ecclesiastes 12:10-11
The preacher sought to find willing words and upright writings, even words of truth.