Job 6:26 “Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair…”

Job 6:26

Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

World English Bible

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

American Standard Version

Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?

Geneva Bible 1599

Doe ye imagine to reproue wordes, that the talke of the afflicted should be as the winde?

Darby Translation

Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.

Young's Literal Translation

For reproof — do you reckon words? And for wind — sayings of the desperate.

Bible in Basic English

My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.

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Cross references

“reprove”

Matthew 12:37 Job 2:10 Job 3:3–26 Job 34:3–9 Job 38:2 Job 40:5

Matthew 12:37 · BSB

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Job 2:10 · BSB

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

Job 3:3–26 · BSB

“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’

Job 34:3–9 · BSB

For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.

Job 38:2 · BSB

“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?

Job 40:5 · BSB

I have spoken once, but I have no answer— twice, but I have nothing to add.”

“one that”

Job 6:4 Job 6:9 Job 10:1

Job 6:4 · BSB

For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Job 6:9 · BSB

that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!

Job 10:1 · BSB

“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

“as wind”

Job 8:2 Ephesians 4:14 Hosea 12:1

Job 8:2 · BSB

“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.

Ephesians 4:14 · BSB

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.

Hosea 12:1 · BSB

Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

25How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?

27You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.

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