Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just

Job 6:25

In 11 translations

BSB: How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?
KJV: How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
WEB: How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
ASV: How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?
LSV: How powerful have been upright sayings, || And what reproof from you reproves?
YLT: How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?
DBY: How forcible are right words! but what doth your upbraiding reprove?
DRC: Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me?
GNV: Howe stedfast are the wordes of righteousnes? and what can any of you iustly reproue?
JPS: How forcible are words of uprightness! But what doth your arguing argue?
LXXE: But as it seems, the words of a true man are vain, because I do not ask strength of you.

WLC: מַה־נִּמְרְצ֥וּ אִמְרֵי־יֹ֑שֶׁר וּמַה־יּוֹכִ֖יחַ הוֹכֵ֣חַ מִכֶּֽם׃
LXX-Br: Ἀλλʼ ὡς ἔοικε φαῦλα ἀληθινοῦ ῥήματα, οὐ γὰρ παρʼ ὑμῶν ἰσχὺν αἰτοῦμαι.

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Job 21:34So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
Proverbs 16:21–24The wise in heart are called discerning, and pleasant speech promotes instruction. Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessor, but the discipline of fools is folly. The heart of the wise man instructs his…
Proverbs 18:21Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Proverbs 12:18Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Ecclesiastes 12:10–11The Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth. The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd.
Job 24:25If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
Job 32:3and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
Job 16:3–5Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying? I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you. But I would…
Job 13:5If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!
Job 4:4Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
Proverbs 25:11A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

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