“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 6:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Do you think that you can reprove words, as if the speech of the desperate were wind? Flere versionerKing 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. |
“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
“Should the wise answer with windy knowledge and fill themselves with the east wind?
But he said to her, “You speak as any foolish woman would speak. Shall we receive good from God and not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
I have spoken once, and I will not answer, twice but will proceed no further.”
Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified?
‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me that I did not know.
After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
“How long will you say these things and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
Ephraim herds the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a treaty with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.
for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming;