Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

New American Standard Bible

“Do you intend to reprove my words,
When the words of one in despair belong to the wind?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Do you think that you can disprove my words
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.

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?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
to reprove
יכח 
Yakach 
Usage: 59

מלּה מלּה 
Millah 
Usage: 38

and the speeches
אמר 
'emer 
Usage: 49

יאשׁ 
Ya'ash 
Usage: 6

Context Readings

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

25 How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove? 26 For reproof -- do you reckon words? And for wind -- sayings of the desperate. 27 Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.



Cross References

Job 8:2

Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind -- sayings of thy mouth?

Job 2:10

And he saith unto her, 'As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.

Job 3:3-26

Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: 'A man-child hath been conceived.'

Job 4:3-4

Lo, thou hast instructed many, And feeble hands thou makest strong.

Job 6:4

For arrows of the Mighty are with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves for me!

Job 6:9

That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!

Job 10:1

My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 34:3-9

For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.

Job 38:2

Who is this -- darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?

Job 40:5

Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.

Job 40:8

Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

Job 42:3

Who is this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.

Job 42:7

And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, 'Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim is enjoying wind, And is pursuing an east wind, All the day lying and spoiling he multiplieth, And a covenant with Asshur they make, And oil to Egypt is carried.

Matthew 12:37

for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'

Ephesians 4:14

that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

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