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Job 6:26

New Century Version

Do you mean to correct what I say? Will you treat the words of a troubled man as if they were only wind?

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“I hate my life, so I will complain without holding back; I will speak because I am so unhappy.

“A wise person would not answer with empty words or fill his stomach with the hot east wind.

Will your long-winded speeches never end? What makes you keep on arguing?

Job answered, “You are talking like a foolish woman. Should we take only good things from God and not trouble?” In spite of all this Job did not sin in what he said.

“Who is this that makes my purpose unclear by saying things that are not true?

I spoke one time, but I will not answer again; I even spoke two times, but I will say nothing more.”

Would you say that I am unfair? Would you blame me to make yourself look right?

You asked, ‘Who is this that made my purpose unclear by saying things that are not true?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand; I talked of things too wonderful for me to know.

After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job did.

Honest words are painful, but your arguments prove nothing.

The arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks in their poison; God’s terrors are gathered against me.

How I wish God would crush me and reach out his hand to destroy me.

“How long will you say such things? Your words are no more than wind.

What Israel does is as useless as chasing the wind; he chases the east wind all day. They tell more and more lies and do more and more violence. They make agreements with Assyria, and they send a gift of olive oil to Egypt.

The words you have said will be used to judge you. Some of your words will prove you right, but some of your words will prove you guilty.”

Then we will no longer be babies. We will not be tossed about like a ship that the waves carry one way and then another. We will not be influenced by every new teaching we hear from people who are trying to fool us. They make plans and try any kind of trick to fool people into following the wrong path.




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