Job 6:26
Do ye hold words to be an argument, but the speeches of one that is desperate to be wind?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 forcible are words of uprightness! But what doth your arguing argue?
27Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, and dig a pit for your friend.
Cross References
Job 2:10But he said unto her: 'Thou speakest as one of the impious women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?' For all this did not Job sin with his lips.
Job 4:3Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
Job 6:9Even that it would please God to crush me; that He would let loose His hand, and cut me off!
Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 38:2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 40:8Wilt thou even make void My judgment? Wilt thou condemn Me, that thou mayest be justified?
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 →