Job 6:25 BSB — MannaFest

Job 6:25

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book VII (604)

Wherefore have ye detracted from the words of truth; when there is none of you that is able to convict them? He must himself be pure from evil, who makes it his concern to correct the evil practices of other men, so as not to be taken up with earthly imaginations, not to give way to grovelling desires, in order that he may the more clearly see what things others ought to avoid, in proportion as he himself the more thoroughly eschews them by knowledge and by practice.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

How forcible are right words! - How weighty and impressive are words of truth! Job means that he was accustomed to feel their power, and to admit it on his soul. If their words were such, he would listen to them with profound attention, and in silence. The expression has a proverbial cast. But what doth your arguing reprove? - Or rather, what doth the reproof from you reprove? or what do your reproaches prove?

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
מַה־	mah-	how!	H4100 →
נִּמְרְצ֥וּ	nim.re.Tzu	they are painful	H4834 →
אִמְרֵי־	'im.rei-	words of	H561 →
יֹ֑שֶׁר	Yo.sher	uprightness	H3476 →
וּמַה־	u.mah-	and what?	H4100 →
יּוֹכִ֖יחַ	yo.Khi.ach	does it prove	H3198 →
הוֹכֵ֣חַ	ho.Khe.ach	completely <to prove>	H3198 →
מִכֶּֽם׃	mi.Kem	from <the> you

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 18:21
Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
leads to
- Ephesians 4:29
  Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
- Matthew 12:35–37
  The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure.
- Colossians 4:6
  Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
- Proverbs 10:19–21
  When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.
- James 3:6–9
  The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on…
Through
Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
leads to
- Proverbs 15:23
  A man takes joy in a fitting reply—and how good is a timely word!
- Isaiah 50:4
  The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
- Ecclesiastes 12:10
  The Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth.

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

Where the connections lead

The record, by era

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Job