Job 6:26
You prepare speeches as so much noise, and you offer words into the wind.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
27You encroach upon the orphan, and you strive to undermine your friend.
Cross References
Job 2:10He said to her, “You have spoken like one of the foolish wives. If we accepted good things from the hand of God, why should we not accept bad things?” In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.
Job 4:3Behold, you have taught many, and you have strengthened weary hands.
Job 6:9and that he who, at first, had crushed me, will let loose his hand and cut me down?
Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life. I will release my words against myself. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 38:2Who is this that wraps sentences in unskilled words?
Job 40:8Hide them in the dust together and plunge their faces into the pit.
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 →