Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Do you intend to reprove my words [with a convincing argument],
When the words of one in despair belong to the wind [and go ignored]?
New American Standard Bible
When the
King James Version
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Holman Bible
or that a despairing man’s words are mere wind?
International Standard Version
Did you intend your words to reprove, even though the speech of a desperate person is just wind?
A Conservative Version
Do ye think to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of a man who is desperate are as wind?
American Standard Version
Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?
Bible in Basic English
My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.
Darby Translation
Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.
Julia Smith Translation
Will ye purpose to reprove words, and for the spirit of the words of him despairing?
King James 2000
Do you intend to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do you intend to reprove [my] words and [consider the] words of a desperate [man] as wind?
Modern King James verseion
Do you intend to criticize words, and the speeches of one who is hopeless, that are as wind?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Do ye take deliberacy to check men's sayings, and judge a poor word spoken in vain?
NET Bible
Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?
New Heart English Bible
Do you intend to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
The Emphasized Bible
To decide words, do ye intend, When, to the wind, are spoken the sayings of one in despair?
Webster
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
World English Bible
Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
Youngs Literal Translation
For reproof -- do you reckon words? And for wind -- sayings of the desperate.
Interlinear
Chashab
Millah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
25
“How painful are words of honesty.
But what does your argument prove?
“Do you intend to reprove my words [with a convincing argument],
When the words of one in despair belong to the wind [and go ignored]?
“You would cast lots (gamble) over the fatherless
And bargain away your friend.
Cross References
Job 8:2
“How long will you say these things?
And will the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
Job 2:10
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the [spiritually] foolish women speaks [ignorant and oblivious to God’s will]. Shall we indeed accept [only] good from God and not [also] accept adversity and disaster?” In [spite of] all this Job did not sin with [words from] his lips.
Job 3:3-26
“Let the day on which I was born perish,
And the night which announced: ‘There is a man-child conceived.’
Job 4:3-4
“Behold, you have admonished and instructed many,
And you have strengthened weak hands.
Job 6:4
Because the arrows of the Almighty are within me,
My spirit drinks their poison;
The terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Job 6:9
“I wish that it would please God to crush me,
That He would let loose His hand and cut me off.
Job 10:1
I will give free expression to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 34:3-9
“For the ear puts words to the test
As the palate tastes food.
Job 38:2
“Who is this that darkens counsel [questioning my authority and wisdom]
By words without knowledge?
Job 40:5
“I have spoken once, but I will not reply again—
Indeed, twice [I have answered], and I will add nothing further.”
Job 40:8
“Will you really annul My judgment and set it aside as void?
Will you condemn Me [your God] that you may [appear to] be righteous and justified?
Job 42:3
“[You said to me] ‘Who is this that darkens and obscures counsel [by words] without knowledge?’
Therefore [I now see] I have [rashly] uttered that which I did not understand,
Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Job 42:7
It came about that after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that 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.
Hosea 12:1
And [continually] pursues the [parching] east wind [which brings destruction];
Every day he multiplies lies and violence.
Further, he makes a covenant with Assyria
And (olive) oil is carried to Egypt [to seek alliances].
Matthew 12:37
Ephesians 4:14
So that we are no longer children [spiritually immature], tossed back and forth [like ships on a stormy sea] and carried about by every wind of [shifting] doctrine, by the cunning and trickery of [unscrupulous] men, by the deceitful scheming of people ready to do anything [for personal profit].