Verse 25

How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?

Referenced Verses

• Job 4:4 : 4 The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees thou dost strengthen.
• Job 13:5 : 5 O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
• Job 16:3-5 : 3 Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest? 4 I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head. 5 I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.
• Job 21:34 : 34 And how do ye comfort me `with' vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?
• Job 24:25 : 25 And if not now, who doth prove me a liar, And doth make of nothing my word?
• Job 32:3 : 3 and against his three friends hath his anger burned, because that they have not found an answer, and condemn Job.
• Prov 12:18 : 18 A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.
• Prov 16:21-24 : 21 To the wise in heart is called, `Intelligent,' And sweetness of lips increaseth learning. 22 A fountain of life `is' understanding to its possessors, The instruction of fools is folly. 23 The heart of the wise causeth his mouth to act wisely, And by his lips he increaseth learning, 24 Sayings of pleasantness `are' a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.
• Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life `are' in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.
• Prov 25:11 : 11 Apples of gold in imagery of silver, `Is' the word spoken at its fit times.
• Eccl 12:10-11 : 10 The preacher sought to find out pleasing words, and, written `by' the upright, words of truth. 11 Words of the wise `are' as goads, and as fences planted `by' the masters of collections, they have been given by one shepherd.