Job 6:25 Cross References - EJ2000

²⁵ How forcible are the words of rectitude! But what does your argument reprove?

⁴ Thy words have upheld the one that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

⁵ O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be unto you instead of wisdom.

³ Shall vain words have an end? Or what is it that emboldens thee to answer? ⁴ I also could speak as ye do. I wish your soul were in my soul’s stead, that I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you. ⁵ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would assuage the pain.

³⁴ How then do ye comfort me in vain, given that your answers remain as falsehood?

²⁵ And if it is not so now, who will make me a liar or reduce my speech to nothing?

³ Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

¹⁸ ¶ There are those that speak like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is medicine.

²¹ ¶ The wise in heart is called a man of understanding; and the sweetness of the lips shall increase doctrine. ²² ¶ Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that has it, but the instruction of fools is folly. ²³ ¶ The heart of the wise causes his mouth to be prudent, and with his lips he shall increase doctrine. ²⁴ ¶ Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and medicine to the bones.

²¹ ¶ Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those that love it shall eat its fruit.

¹¹ ¶ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold inscribed with silver.

¹⁰ The preacher sought to find willing words and upright writings, even words of truth. ¹¹ The words of the wise are as goads and as nails hammered into place, those of the teachers of the congregations, who are placed under one Shepherd.