Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
or that a despairing man’s words are mere wind?
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?
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]?
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
But what does your rebuke prove?
or that a despairing man’s words are mere wind?
and negotiate a price to sell your friend.
Cross References
Job 8:2
Your words
Job 2:10
“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.
Job 3:3-26
and the night when they said,
“A boy is conceived.”
Job 4:3-4
and have strengthened
Job 6:4
my spirit drinks their poison.
God’s terrors are arrayed against me.
Job 6:9
to unleash His power and cut me off!
Job 10:1
I will express my complaint
and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 34:3-9
as the palate tastes food?
Job 38:2
with ignorant words?
Job 40:5
twice, but now I can add nothing.
Job 40:8
Would you declare Me guilty
Job 42:3
Surely I spoke about things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to
Job 42:7
After the Lord had finished speaking
Hosea 12:1
and pursues the east wind.
He continually multiplies lies and violence.
He makes a covenant with Assyria,
and olive oil is carried to Egypt.
Matthew 12:37
Ephesians 4:14
Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching,