Verse 25
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Referenced Verses
- Job 4:4 : 4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
- Job 13:5 : 5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
- Job 16:3-5 : 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 4 I also could speak as ye [do]: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. 5 [But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage [your grief].
- Job 21:34 : 34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
- Job 24:25 : 25 And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make 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 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 wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools [is] folly. 23 ¶ The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips. 24 ¶ Pleasant words [are as] an 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 pictures of silver.
- Eccl 12:10-11 : 10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and [that which was] written [was] upright, [even] words of truth. 11 The words of the wise [are] as goads, and as nails fastened [by] the masters of assemblies, [which] are given from one shepherd.