Job 6:25

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Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.	How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?	Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind?

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

How forcible^H4834 are right^H3476 words^H561! but what doth your arguing^H3198 reprove^H3198?

Original Hebrew

מַה־נִּמְרְצוּ אִמְרֵי־יֹשֶׁר וּמַה־יֹּוכִיחַ הֹוכֵחַ מִכֶּם׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
מַה	mah-	H4100	HTi	how!
נִּמְרְצ֥וּ	nim.re.Tzu	H4834	HVNp3cp	they are painful
אִמְרֵי	'im.rei-	H561	HNcmpc	words of
יֹ֑שֶׁר	Yo.sher	H3476	HNcmsa	uprightness
וּ/מַה	u./mah-	H4100	HC/Ti	and/ what?
יּוֹכִ֖יחַ	yo.Khi.ach	H3198	HVhi3ms	does it prove
הוֹכֵ֣חַ	ho.Khe.ach	H3198	HVha	completely (to prove)
מִ/כֶּֽם	mi./Kem	H4480	HR/Sp2mp	from (the)/ you

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H561 — אֵמֶר (ʼêmer, ay'-mer): from אָמַר; something said; answer, [idiom] appointed unto him, saying, speech, word.
H3198 — יָכַח (yâkach, yaw-kahh'): a primitive root; to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict; appoint, argue, chasten, convince, correct(-ion), daysman, dispute, judge, maintain, plead, reason (together), rebuke, reprove(-r), surely, in any wise.
H3476 — יֹשֶׁר (yôsher, yo'-sher): from יָשַׁר; the right; equity, meet, right, upright(-ness).
H4834 — מָרַץ (mârats, maw-rats'): a primitive root; properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to be pungent or vehement; to irritate; embolden, be forcible, grievous, sore.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H4100 — מָה (mâh, maw): or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses; how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
H4480 — מִן (min, min): or מִנִּי; or מִנֵּי; (constructive plural) (Isaiah 30:11); for מֵן; properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses; above, after, among, at, because of, by (reason of), from (among), in, [idiom] neither, [idiom] nor, (out) of, over, since, [idiom] then, through, [idiom] whether, with.

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

forcible — Job 4:4, Job 16:5, Proverbs 12:18, Proverbs 16:21-24, Proverbs 18:21, Proverbs 25:11, Ecclesiastes 12:10-11
what doth — Job 13:5, Job 16:3-4, Job 21:34, Job 24:25, Job 32:3

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