Job 6:26

My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

25How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?

27Truly, 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.

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Cross References

Job 2:10And 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 4:3Truly, you have been a helper to others, and you have made feeble hands strong;

Job 6:9If 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 10:1My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.

Job 38:2Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

Job 40:8\40:13\Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

Matthew Henry on Job 6:23-30

22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance? 23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty? 24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. 25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? 26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? 27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. 28 Now therefore be content, look… Read the whole commentary →

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