25How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove?


In Context

22 Have I ever said, 'Give something on my behalf, pay a ransom for me from your wealth,

23 deliver me from the hand of the enemy, ransom me from the clutches of the ruthless'?

24 "Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong.

25 How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove?

26 Do you mean to correct what I say, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?

27 You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.

Job 6:25 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:25How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:25Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:25How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:25How forcible are right words! but what doth your upbraiding reprove?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:25How forcible are words of uprightness! but what doth your arguing reprove?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:25How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:25How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:25How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:25How forcible are right words! but what does your arguing reprove?