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?

Cross References

Job 8:2

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

Ephesians 4:14

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;

Matthew 12:37

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

Hosea 12:1

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.

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 42:3

‘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.

Job 40:8

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

Job 40:5

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

Job 38:2

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

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 6:9

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

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 2:10

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.

Job 6:25

How forceful are honest words! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

Job 15:2

“Should the wise answer with windy knowledge and fill themselves with the east wind?

Job 16:3

Have windy words no limit? Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?