Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Right words are powerful, but what does your arguing argue?

New American Standard Bible

“How painful are honest words!
But what does your argument prove?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

How painful honest words can be!
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 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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מרץ 
Marats 
Usage: 4

ישׁר 
Yosher 
Usage: 14

אמר 
'emer 
Usage: 49

Context Readings

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

24 Teach me, and I will be silent; and cause me to understand where I have gone astray. 25 Right words are powerful, but what does your arguing argue? 26 Do you intend to criticize words, and the speeches of one who is hopeless, that are as wind?



Cross References

Job 4:4

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

Job 13:5

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

Job 16:3-5

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

Job 21:34

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

Job 24:25

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

Job 32:3

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

Proverbs 12:18

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

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 like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Ecclesiastes 12:10-11

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

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