Job 6:25

Ecclesiastes 12:10; Ecclesiastes 12:11; Job 13:5; Job 16:3; Job 16:4; Job 16:5; Job 21:34; Job 24:25; Job 32:3; Job 4:4; Proverbs 12:18; Proverbs 16:21-24; Proverbs 18:21; Proverbs 25:11

Related Commentaries of Job 6:25

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

How (p) forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? (p) He who has a good conscience does not shrink at the sharp words or reasoni...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Sorrowful Disappointment in his Friends. He begins by citing a proverb. The despairing man who is slipping from religion, looks for help and...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

words . sayings. reprove . convince, or confute: i.e. what can. reproof from you reprove? See translation, below.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? How forcible are right words - A well-constructed argument, that has truth for its...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

How forcible are right words!— How persuasive are the words of an impartial man! But how shall a man defend himself, whom you have already condemn...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. Irony. If you can teach me the right view, I am willing...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The First Speech of Job ( Job 6:7 ) 1-13. Job, smarting under the remarks of Eliphaz, which he feels are not appropriate to his case, renews and j...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Forcible ] perhaps 'irritating' would be better, a bitter sarcasm. What doth your arguing reprove? ] At what sin are they aiming?
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

How forcible are right words ! — “How forcible are words of uprightness! But what doth your reproof reprove? Open rebuke is better than secret love;...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1-30 ; Job 7:1-21 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own hea...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“A Deceitful Brook” Job 6:1-30 The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking ra...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job's answer is a magnificent and terrible outcry. First, he speaks of his pain as a protest against the method of Eliphaz. His reply is not to the d...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(14) В¶ To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. (15) My brethren have dealt deceit...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

How forcible are right words !.... That are according to right reason; such as may be called strong reasons, or bony arguments, as in Isaiah 41:21...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? Ver. 25. How forcible are right words ] How sweet, saith the Chaldee, interpreti...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Teach me Instead of censuring and reproaching, instruct and convince me by solid arguments; and I will hold my tongue I will patiently hear and g...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ (vv.1-30) It is remarkable that Job, being in the painful condition he was, was still able to reply in such capable and s...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance? 23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the ha...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Right words, i.e. the words of truth or solid arguments, have a marvellous power to convince and persuade a man; and if yours were such, I should r...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Justifies his complaint ( Job 6:2 ). “O that my grief were thoroughly weighed,” &c. Job’s case neither apprehende...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 6:4 . The poison of the arrows absorbed his spirits. In 1822, when Campbel the missionary travelled in South Africa, a bushman shot one of his...
The Biblical Illustrator

But Job answered and said. Job’s answer to Eliphaz We must come upon grief in one of two ways and Job seems to have come upon grief in a way th...
The Biblical Illustrator

To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend. A message to doubters Such is the rendering of the Authorised Version; but, unf...
The Biblical Illustrator

How forcible are right words! The force of right words Who has not felt the superiority of the power of Job’s words compared with those of the...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 6:1-18 . and 7. contain Job's reply to Eliphaz. In Job 6:1-18 . he confines himself to three points: (1) a justification of...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Criticizes Eliphaz for his Conduct
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

How forcible are right words, such as are based upon sound knowledge! But what doth your arguing reprove? What Job missed so sorely in the case of...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Forcible — The words of truth have a marvellous power. Reprove — But there is no truth in your assertions or weight in your arguments.

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

Related Commentaries of Job 6:25

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 6:25