“My being has grown weary of life. I let loose my complaint, I speak in the bitterness of my being.
Job 6:26 - The Scriptures 2009 Do you reckon to reprove my words, and the sayings of one in despair, which are as wind? Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Do ye imagine to reprove words, And the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Do you imagine your words to be an argument, but the speeches of one who is desperate to be as wind? American Standard Version (1901) Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind? Common English Bible Do you intend to correct my words, to treat the words of a hopeless man as wind? Catholic Public Domain Version You prepare speeches as so much noise, and you offer words into the wind. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You dress up speeches only to rebuke: and you utter words to the wind. |
“My being has grown weary of life. I let loose my complaint, I speak in the bitterness of my being.
“Would a wise man answer with vain knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?
Is there an end to words of wind? Or what provokes you that you answer?
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we accept only good from Elohim, and not accept evil?” In all this Iyoḇ did not sin with his lips.
Once I have spoken, but I have no answer – and twice, but I say no more.”
Would you also set aside My judgment? Would you pronounce Me wrong, and you be declared righteous?
Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I declared but I did not understand, matters too marvellous for me, which I did not know.
And it came to be, after יהוה had spoken these words to Iyoḇ, that יהוה said to Eliphaz the Tĕmanite, “My wrath has burned against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as did My servant Iyoḇ.
Words of uprightness are harsh! But what does your reproving reprove?
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, my spirit drinks in their poison, the onslaughts of Eloah are arrayed against me.
That it would please Eloah to crush me, loose His hand and cut me off!
“How long are you going to speak like this, since the words of your mouth are a strong wind?
Ephrayim is feeding on wind, and pursuing an east wind. All the day he increases falsehood and ruin. And they make a covenant with Ashshur, and oil is sent to Mitsrayim.
“For by your words you shall be declared righteous, and by your words you shall be declared unrighteous.”
so that we should no longer be children, tossed and borne about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of men, in cleverness, unto the craftiness of leading astray,