26Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?


In Context

23 Or, Deliver me from the adversary's hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?

24 Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?

26 Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?

27 Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.

28 Now therefore be pleased to look upon me; For surely I shall not lie to your face.

Job 6:26 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:26Do you mean to correct what I say, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:26You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:26Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:26Do ye imagine to reprove words? seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:26Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:26For reproof — do you reckon words? And for wind — sayings of the desperate.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:26Do you imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?