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 quiet. Show me where I have been wrong.
25
But what does your argument prove?
Names
Cross References
Job 4:4
When someone stumbled, you lifted him up with your words. When knees were weak, you gave them strength.
Job 13:5
If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
Job 16:3-5
Is there no limit to windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Job 21:34
How then will you comfort me with empty and futile words? 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 was angry also with Job's three friends because they found no answer, though they had declared Job to be in the wrong.
Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword. The tongue of the wise brings a cure.
Proverbs 16:21-24
The wise in heart will be called sensible. The sweetness of the lips increases learning.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Those who love it will eat the fruit.
Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
Ecclesiastes 12:10-11
The preacher sought to find out acceptable words. That which was written was upright, even words of truth.