How forcible are right words!

[Job 6:25] How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
[Forcible - The words of truth have a marvellous power. A well-constructed argument, that has truth for its basis, is irresistible. That is according to right reason; such as may be called strong reasons, or bony arguments, as in Isaiah 41:21 there are strength and weight in such words, reasoning’s, and arguments. They bring evidence and conviction with them, and are very powerful to persuade the mind to an assent unto them, and have great influence to engage to a profession or practice of what they are used. Such are more especially the words of G-d, the Scriptures of truth, the doctrines of the Gospel; these are right words, Proverbs 8:6, 8, and 9. They are not contrary to right reason, although above it; and are agreeably to sanctified reason, and received by it. They are according to the perfections of G-d, even His righteousness and holiness, and according to the Law of
G-d, and in no wise revolting to it, which is the rule of righteousness. Such as he believed his own were, and in which there were nothing hard and harsh, sharp and severe, or which might give just offence. Such as his cursing the day in which he was born, or charging his friends with treachery and deceit but rather he tacitly reflects upon the words and arguments of his friends. Intimating, that though there is force and strength in right words, theirs were neither right nor forcible, but partial and unjust, and weak and impotent; which had no strength of reasoning in them, nor carried any conviction with them,
But what doth your arguing reprove? But there is no truth in your assertions or weight in your arguments. Their arguments they had used with him had no strength in them; they were of no avail; they did not reprove or convince of any evil he had been guilty of or any mistake he had made; they were weak, impertinent, and useless, and fell with no weight upon him, nor wrought any conviction in him.
The reproofs which proceed from you"; the emphasis is on you; you may find fault, who are not in my situation.]
[26] Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
[Words - Do you think it is sufficient to quarrel with some of my words, without giving allowance for human infirmity, or extreme misery.
Do ye imagine to reprove word - Or with words; with bare words, without any force of reasoning and argument in them? Put a parcel of words together without any sense or meaning, or however without any logic in them, and think to run me down with them? Or is your scheme and device only, and which you pursue, to catch at and lay hold on some words of mine uttered in my distress, and make me an offender for a word, or for a few words, supposing they have been rashly and passionately spoken? Have ye no facts to charge me with, before or since these calamities befell me? Is the charge of hypocrisy and want of the fear of G-d to be supported by producing some hasty expressions, without pointing at one single action in my life and conversation?
Is it some expressions which in my hurry, and under the pressure of unprecedented affliction, I have uttered, that ye catch at? You can find no flaw in my conduct; would ye make me an offender for a Word? Why endeavor to take such advantage of a man who complains in the bitterness of his heart, through despair of life and happiness?
The speeches of one - that is, do ye imagine to reprove them or, are; your thoughts wholly and solely intent on them? Are these only the strong reasons you have to produce to fix the sin of hypocrisy upon me?
His condition was forlorn and miserable, and there was no hope with him of being better; his children were dead, his substance in the hands of robbers, his health so extremely bad that he had no expectation of a recovery to his former state. Therefore it was very unkind and ungenerous to lay hold upon and aggravate the speeches of such a one, and improve them against him; and especially as they were only "for refreshment", as some choose to render the words, (32:20). The sense of the whole is, that they imagined that their words were right and fit to reprove with, and that there were force and strength in them, and had a tendency to work conviction and bring to confession.
Desperate - Of a poor miserable, hopeless and helpless man. For by him that is "desperate" he means himself; not that he despaired of his everlasting salvation; he was far from despair; he was a strong believer, and determined that, though he was slain, he would trust in the L-rd. He was well assured he should be justified, both here and hereafter; and full well knew that his Redeemer lived, and that though he died, he should rise again and be happy in the vision of G-d for ever: but he despaired of a restoration to outward happiness, which Eliphaz had suggested, should he behave well.
Which are as wind - Which pass away and are forgotten. But as for the words of Job, they treated them "as wind"; as idle, vain, and empty, and useless and fruitless as the wind. The Hebrew for "as wind," as "sentiments"; making formal "sentiments" antithetical to mere "speeches," and supplying, not the word "reprove," but "would you regard," from the first clause.]