Job 6:26
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
King James Version
In Context
25How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Cross References
Job 2:10But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In 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 destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; 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 also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest 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 →