Job 6:26

In 11 translations

BSB

Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?

KJV

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

WEB

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

ASV

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

LSV

For reproof—do you reckon words? And for wind—sayings of the desperate?

YLT

For reproof — do you reckon words? And for wind — sayings of the desperate.

DBY

Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.

DRC

You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.

GNV

Doe ye imagine to reproue wordes, that the talke of the afflicted should be as the winde?

JPS

Do ye hold words to be an argument, but the speeches of one that is desperate to be wind?

LXXE

Neither will your reproof cause me to cease my words, for neither will I endure the sound of your speech.

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WLC

הַלְהוֹכַ֣ח מִלִּ֣ים תַּחְשֹׁ֑בוּ וּ֝לְר֗וּחַ אִמְרֵ֥י נֹאָֽשׁ׃

LXX-Br

Οὐδὲ ἔλεγχος ὑμῶν ῥήμασί με παύσει, οὐδὲ γὰρ ὑμῶν φθέγμα ῥήματος ἀνέξομαι.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 8:2“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
• Matthew 12:37For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
• Ephesians 4:14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
• Job 42:3You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
• Job 3:3–26“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’ If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it. May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and…
• Job 42:7After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.
• Job 2:10“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
• Hosea 12:1Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
• Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Job 34:3–9For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food. Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good. For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice. Would I lie…
• Job 4:3–4Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands. Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
• Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
• Job 6:9that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
• Job 38:2“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
• Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
• Job 40:5I have spoken once, but I have no answer— twice, but I have nothing to add.”

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