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


In Context

23 Or deliver me from the hand of the enemy, and rescue me out of the hand of the mighty?

24 Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and if I have been ignorant in any thing, instruct me.

25 Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me?

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

27 You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.

28 However finish what you have begun, give ear, and see whether I lie.

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 American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:26Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as 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?