Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.
New American Standard Bible
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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?
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]?
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 pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments? 26 My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind. 27 Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.
Cross References
Job 8:2
How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
Job 2:10
And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.
Job 3:3-26
Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.
Job 4:3-4
Truly, you have been a helper to others, and you have made feeble hands strong;
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.
Job 6:9
If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!
Job 10:1
My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
Job 34:3-9
For words are tested by the ear, as food is tasted by the mouth.
Job 38:2
Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?
Job 40:5
I have said once, and even twice, what was in my mind, but I will not do so again.
Job 40:8
Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?
Job 42:3
Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.
Job 42:7
And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.
Matthew 12:37
For by your words will your righteousness be seen, and by your words you will be judged.
Ephesians 4:14
So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;