Job 6:26
For reproof — do you reckon words? And for wind — sayings of the desperate.
Young's Literal Translation
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 doth reproof from you reprove?
27Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.
Cross References
Job 2:10And he saith unto her, 'As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.
Job 4:3Lo, thou hast instructed many, And feeble hands thou makest strong.
Job 6:9That God would please — and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
Job 10:1My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 38:2Who [is] this — darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?
Job 40:8Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost 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 →