Verse 25

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

Referenced Verses

• Job 4:4 : 4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, And thou hast made firm the feeble knees.
• Job 13:5 : 5 Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.
• Job 16:3-5 : 3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? 4 I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you. 5 [ But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage [your grief] .
• Job 21:34 : 34 How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth [only] falsehood?
• Job 24:25 : 25 And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?
• Job 32:3 : 3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
• Prov 12:18 : 18 There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
• Prov 16:21-24 : 21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent; And the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning. 22 Understanding is a well-spring of life unto him that hath it; But the correction of fools is [their] folly. 23 The heart of the wise instructeth his mouth, And addeth learning to his lips. 24 Pleasant words are [as] a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
• Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
• Prov 25:11 : 11 A word fitly spoken Is [like] apples of gold in network of silver.
• Eccl 12:10-11 : 10 The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written uprightly, [even] words of truth. 11 The words of the wise are as goads; and as nails well fastened are [the words of] the masters of assemblies, [which] are given from one shepherd.