Job 6:26
You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
25Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me?
27You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.
Cross References
Job 2:10And he said to her: Thou hast; spoken like one of the foolish women: if we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.
Job 4:3Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands:
Job 6:9And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?
Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 38:2Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskillful 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 →