Job 6:26
For reproof—do you reckon words? And for wind—sayings of the desperate?
Literal Standard 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
25How powerful have been upright sayings, || And what reproof from you reproves?
27You cause anger to fall on the fatherless, || And are strange to your friend.
Cross References
Job 2:10And he says to her, “As one of the foolish women speaks, you speak; indeed, do we receive the good from God, and we do not receive the bad?” In all this Job has not sinned with his lips.
Job 4:3Behold, you have instructed many, || And feeble hands you make strong.
Job 6:9That God would please—and bruise me, || Loose His hand and cut me off!
Job 10:1“My soul has been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 38:2“Who [is] this—darkening counsel, || By words without knowledge?
Job 40:8Do you also make My judgment void? Do you condemn Me, || That you may be 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 →