Job 6:26
Do ye think to reprove words, and [to regard] as wind the speeches of one that is despairing?
Leeser Tanakh
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 pleasant are straightforward words! but what doth arguing prove?
27Yea, ye would cast any thing upon the fatherless, and ye would dig a pit against your friend.
Cross References
Job 2:10But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the worthless women would speak. What? should we accept the good alone, from God, and the evil we should not accept? With all this did Job not sin with his lips.
Job 4:3Behold, thou hast [ere this] corrected many, and weak hands thou wast wont to strengthen.
Job 6:9Yea, that it would please God that he might crush me: that he would let loose his hand, and make an end of me!
Job 10:1My soul is disgusted with my life; I will give free vent to my complaint over myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 38:2Who is this that casteth darkness [on my] counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 40:8Wilt thou indeed annul my decree? wilt thou condemn me, in order that thou mayest appear righteous?
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 →