New Revised Standard Version
How forceful are honest words! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

Contemporary English Version
The truth is always painful, but your arguments prove nothing.

New American Bible
How painful honest words can be; yet how unconvincing is your argument!

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

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

forcible.

Job 4:4 Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees:

Job 16:5 I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.

Proverbs 12:18 There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 16:21-24 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and he that is sweet in words, shall attain to greater things. . . .

Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: they that love it, shall eat the fruits thereof.

Proverbs 25:11 To speak a word in due time, is like apples of gold on beds of silver.

Ecclesiastes 12:10,11 He sought profitable words, and wrote words most right, and full of truth. . . .

what doth.

Job 13:5 And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.

Job 16:3,4 Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak? . . .

Job 21:34 How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth?

Job 24:25 And if it be not so, who can convince me that I have lied, and set my words before God?

Job 32:3 And he was angry with his friends, because they had not found a reasonable answer, but only had condemned Job.