Job 6:26
Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
Majority Standard Bible
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 painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?
27You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.
Cross References
Job 2:10“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
Job 4:3Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
Job 6:9that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 38:2“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
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 →