The Pulpit Commentary on Job 6:25

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

How forcible are right words! literally, words of uprightness. Such words have a force that none can resist. If the charges made by Eliphaz had been right and true, and his arguments sound and just, then Job must have yielded to them, have confessed himself guilty, and bowed down with shame before his judges.

But they had had no such constraining power. Therefore they were not "words of uprightness." But what doth your arguing reprove? literally, What doth your reproving reprove? That is—What exactly is it that ye think to be wrong in me?

At what is your invective aimed?

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