Job 6:26
“Do ye imagine to reproue words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as winde?”
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Job 6:26 Context
24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause mee to vnderstand wherein I haue erred. 25How forcible are right wordes? but what doeth your arguing reproue? 26Do ye imagine to reproue words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as winde? 27Yea, ye ouerwhelme the fatherlesse, and you digge a pit for your friend. 28Now therefore be content, looke vpon mee, for it is euident vnto you, if I lie.
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Other Translations for Job 6:26
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind?
- King James Version
"Do you intend to reprove {my} words, When the words of one in despair belong to the wind?
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?
- American Standard Version (1901)
My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.
- Basic English Bible
Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.
- Darby Bible
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
- Webster's Bible
Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
- World English Bible
For reproof -- do you reckon words? And for wind -- sayings of the desperate.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Do ye hold words to be an argument, but the speeches of one that is desperate to be wind?
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Job 6:26
6:26 Words - Do you think it is sufficient to quarrel with some of my words, without giving allowance for human infirmity, or extreme misery. Desperate - Of a poor miserable, hopeless and helpless man. As wind - Which pass away and are forgotten.