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Job 6:25

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

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מַהmahhowמָהparticle, interrogative — “how”H4100properly, 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 senseshow (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.נִּמְרְצ֥וּnimretsvbe forcibleמָרַץverb, niphal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural — “be forcible”, a completed actionH4834properly, to press, i.e. (figuratively) to be pungent or vehement; to irritateembolden, be forcible, grievous, sore.אִמְרֵיimreanswerאֵמֶרnoun, common, masculine, plural, construct — “answer”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH561something saidanswer, [idiom] appointed unto him, saying, speech, word.יֹ֑שֶׁרyosherrightיֹשֶׁרnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “right”, the ordinary formH3476the rightequity, meet, right, upright(-ness).וּמַהumahand howמָהconjunction, particle, interrogative — “and how”H4100properly, 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 senseshow (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.יּוֹכִ֖יחַyokhichaargueיָכַחverb, hiphil, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “argue”, an unfinished actionH3198to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convictappoint, argue, chasten, convince, correct(-ion), daysman, dispute, judge, maintain, plead, reason (together), rebuke, reprove(-r), surely, in any wise.הוֹכֵ֣חַhokhechaargueיָכַחverb, hiphil, infinitive absolute — “argue”, the verb used for emphasisH3198to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convictappoint, argue, chasten, convince, correct(-ion), daysman, dispute, judge, maintain, plead, reason (together), rebuke, reprove(-r), surely, in any wise.מִכֶּֽםmikemfrom fromמִןpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 2nd person, masculine, plural — “from from”H4480properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many sensesabove, 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.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

How forcible are words of uprightness! But what doth your arguing argue?

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American Standard Version (1901)

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

Young’s Literal Translation

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

World English Bible

How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

Darby Translation

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

Douay-Rheims

Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me?

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

How forcible are words of uprightness! But what doth your arguing argue?

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

But as it seems, the words of a true man are vain, because I do not ask strength of you.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἀλλʼ ὡς ἔοικε φαῦλα ἀληθινοῦ ῥήματα, οὐ γὰρ παρʼ ὑμῶν ἰσχὺν αἰτοῦμαι.