Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?
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?
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
24 Shew me, and I -- I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand. 25 How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove? 26 For reproof -- do you reckon words? And for wind -- sayings of the desperate.
Names
Cross References
Job 4:4
The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees thou dost strengthen.
Job 13:5
O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
Job 16:3-5
Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?
Job 21:34
And how do ye comfort me with vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?
Job 24:25
And if not now, who doth prove me a liar, And doth make of nothing my word?
Job 32:3
and against his three friends hath his anger burned, because that they have not found an answer, and condemn Job.
Proverbs 12:18
A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.
Proverbs 16:21-24
To the wise in heart is called, 'Intelligent,' And sweetness of lips increaseth learning.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.
Proverbs 25:11
Apples of gold in imagery of silver, Is the word spoken at its fit times.
Ecclesiastes 12:10-11
The preacher sought to find out pleasing words, and, written by the upright, words of truth.