Job 6:25
Old Testament • 5 words with Strong's data
"How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?"
Word-by-Word Analysis
מָרַץ
mârats
properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to be pungent or vehement; to irritate
יְמָנִי
yᵉmânîy
right (i.e. at the right hand)
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
יָכַח
yâkach
to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict
יָכַח
yâkach
to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict
Key Terms in This Verse
מָרַץ mârats
properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to be pungent or vehement; to irritate
Study H4834 →יָכַח yâkach
to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict
Study H3198 →יָכַח yâkach
to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict
Study H3198 →דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →Cross References
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
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