Job 6:26 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁶ Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ Do ye imagine to reprove words, And the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ 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)

²⁶ Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?

Common English Bible

²⁶ Do you intend to correct my words, to treat the words of a hopeless man as wind?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ You prepare speeches as so much noise, and you offer words into the wind.

Job 6:26 Cross References

Job 10:1

“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 15:2

“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

Job 16:3

Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Job 2:10

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Job 38:2

“Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

Job 40:5

I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further.”

Job 40:8

Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified?

Job 42:3

‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

Job 42:7

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.

Job 6:25

How forceful are honest words! But what does reproof from you reprove?

Job 6:4

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

Job 6:9

that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

Job 8:2

“How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim herds the wind, and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a bargain with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.

Matthew 12:37

for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Ephesians 4:14

so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles.