Job 6:26
Neither will your reproof cause me to cease my words, 1 For neither will I endure the sound of your speech. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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
25But as it seems, the words of a true man are vain, 1 Because I do not ask strength of you. 1
27Even because ye attack the fatherless, 1 And insult your friend. 1
Cross References
Job 2:10But he looked on her, and said to her, 1 Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women. 1 If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things? 1 In all these things that happened to him, 1 Job sinned not at all with his lips before God. 1
Job 4:3For whereas thou hast instructed many, 1 And hast strengthened the hands of the weak one, 1
Job 6:9Let the Lord begin and wound me, 1 But let him not utterly destroy me. 1
Job 10:1Weary in my soul, 1 I will pour my words with groans upon him: 1 I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul. 1
Job 38:2Who is this that hides counsel from me, 1 And confines words in his heart, and thinks to conceal them from me? 1
Job 40:8Do not set aside my judgment: 1 And dost thou think that I have dealt with thee in any other way, than that thou mightest appear to be righteous? 1
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 →