The Meaning of Job 6:25 Explained

Job 6:25

KJV: How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

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

Darby: How forcible are right words! but what doth your upbraiding reprove?

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

KJV Reverse Interlinear

How forcible  are right  words!  but what doth your arguing  reprove? 

What does Job 6:25 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 6:1-30 - "a Deceitful Brook"
The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of his pain, Job 6:4, or they would have seen it to be as natural as the braying and lowing of hungry and suffering beasts, Job 6:5. A man would not take insipid food without complaint; how much more reason had he to complain whose tears were his meat day and night, Job 6:6-7! So bitter were his pains that he would welcome death, and exult in the throes of dissolution, Job 6:8-10. It could hardly be otherwise than that he should succumb, since he had only the ordinary strength of mortals, and both strength and wisdom were exhausted, Job 6:11-13.
Job next characterizes the assistance of his friends as winter brooks, turbid with melted ice and snow, which bitterly disappoint the travelers who had hoped to find water, and perish beside the dry heaps of stones, Job 6:17. They had found fault with his words, which, in the circumstances, were not a true index to his heart, Job 6:26; but a look into his face would have sufficed to attest his innocence of the sin of which they accused him, Job 6:28-30.
From these complaints of faithlessness and disappointment we turn to Him who, having been made perfect through suffering, has become "the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him," Hebrews 5:9. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 6

1  Job shows that his complaints are not causeless
8  He wishes for death, wherein he is assured of comfort
14  He reproves his friends of unkindness

What do the individual words in Job 6:25 mean?

How forceful are words right but what does prove arguing your
מַה־ נִּמְרְצ֥וּ ! אִמְרֵי־ יֹ֑שֶׁר וּמַה־ יּוֹכִ֖יחַ הוֹכֵ֣חַ ؟ מִכֶּֽם

מַה־  How 
Parse: Interrogative
Root: לָמָּה 
Sense: what, how, of what kind.
נִּמְרְצ֥וּ  forceful  are 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: מָרַץ  
Sense: to be or make sick.
! אִמְרֵי־  words 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: אֵמֶר 
Sense: utterance, speech, word, saying, promise, command.
יֹ֑שֶׁר  right 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: יׄשֶׁר  
Sense: straightness, uprightness.
וּמַה־  but  what 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Interrogative
Root: לָמָּה 
Sense: what, how, of what kind.
יּוֹכִ֖יחַ  does  prove 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: יָכַח  
Sense: to prove, decide, judge, rebuke, reprove, correct, be right.
הוֹכֵ֣חַ  arguing 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Infinitive absolute
Root: יָכַח  
Sense: to prove, decide, judge, rebuke, reprove, correct, be right.
؟ מִכֶּֽם  your 
Parse: Preposition, second person masculine plural
Root: מִן 
Sense: from, out of, on account of, off, on the side of, since, above, than, so that not, more than.