Verse 25

How forcible are right words! But what does your arguing reprove?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:4 : 4 Your words have upheld him who was falling, and you have strengthened feeble knees.
  • Job 13:5 : 5 Oh that you would altogether hold your peace, and it should be your wisdom.
  • Job 16:3-5 : 3 Will vain words ever end? Or what makes you bold enough to answer? 4 I too could speak as you do; if your soul were in my soul's place, I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you. 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would ease your grief.
  • Job 21:34 : 34 How then can you comfort me with empty words, seeing in your answers there lies falsehood?
  • Job 24:25 : 25 And if it is not so, now, who will make me a liar and make my speech worth nothing?
  • Job 32:3 : 3 Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 There are those who speak like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
  • Prov 16:21-24 : 21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent, and the sweetness of the lips increases learning. 22 Understanding is a wellspring of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly. 23 The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips. 24 Pleasant words are like 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 those who love it will eat its fruit.
  • Prov 25:11 : 11 A word spoken at the right time is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
  • Eccl 12:10-11 : 10 The preacher sought to find acceptable words, and what was written was upright, even words of truth. 11 The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given by one shepherd.