Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Will ye purpose to reprove words, and for the spirit of the words of him despairing?
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?
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.
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 forcible were words of uprightness! and what will reproving from you prove? 26 Will ye purpose to reprove words, and for the spirit of the words of him despairing? 27 But ye will cause the orphans to fall, and ye will dig for your friend.
Cross References
Job 8:2
How long wilt thou speak these things? and the great spirit of the words of thy mouth?
Job 2:10
And he will say to her, According to the word of one of the foolish women thou wilt speak. Shall we also receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this. Job sinned not with his lips.
Job 3:3-26
The day shall perish I shall bring forth in it, and the night said, A male was conceived.
Job 4:3-4
Behold, thou didst instruct many, and thou wilt strengthen the weak hands.
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are with me, which their anger drank up my spirit: the terrors of God will be prepared for me.
Job 6:9
And God will, and he will crush me; will he let his hand remain, and will he cut me off?
Job 10:1
My soul was weary in my life; I shall leave upon me my complaint; I shall speak in the bitterness of my soul
Job 34:3-9
For the ear will try words, and the palate will taste of food
Job 38:2
Who this darkening counsel in words without knowledge?
Job 40:5
Once I sake, and I will not answer: and twice, and I will not add.
Job 40:8
Wilt thou also annul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me so that thou shalt be just?
Job 42:3
Who this hiding counsel without knowledge? for this, I announced, and I shall not understand; wonders above me, and I shall not know.
Job 42:7
And it will be after Jehovah spake these words to Job, and Jehovah will say to Eliphaz the Temanite, Mine anger was kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye spake not the right before me as my servant Job.
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim fed upon the wind, and he pursued the east wind: all the day he multiplied falsehood and destruction; and they will cut out a covenant with Assur, and oil will be brought to Egypt
Matthew 12:37
For by thy words shalt thou be justified, and by thy words shalt thou be condemned.
Ephesians 4:14
That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit;