Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
How steadfast are the words of truth! And which of you can rebuke or reprove them?
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?
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 hold my tongue: and wherein I have erred, cause me to understand. 25 How steadfast are the words of truth! And which of you can rebuke or reprove them? 26 Do ye take deliberacy to check men's sayings, and judge a poor word spoken in vain?
Names
Cross References
Job 4:4
Thy words have set up those that were fallen, thou hast refreshed the weak knees.
Job 13:5
Would God ye kept your tongue, that ye might be taken for wise men!
Job 16:3-5
Shall not thy vain words come yet to an end? Or, hast thou yet any more to say?
Job 21:34
How vain, then, is the comfort that ye give me? Are not your answers clean contrary to right and truth?"
Job 24:25
Is it not so? Who will then reprove me as a liar, and say that my words are nothing worth?"
Job 32:3
And with Job's three friends he was angry also, because they had found no reasonable answer to overcome him.
Proverbs 12:18
A slanderous person pricketh like a sword; but a wise man's tongue is wholesome.
Proverbs 16:21-24
Whoso hath a wise understanding is called to counsel; but he that can speak fair, getteth more riches.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life stand in the power of the tongue; he that loveth it, shall enjoy the fruit thereof.
Proverbs 25:11
A word spoken in due season, is like apples of gold in a silver dish.
Ecclesiastes 12:10-11
His diligence was to find out acceptable words, right scripture, and the words of truth.