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


In Context

23 deliver me from the hand of the enemy, ransom me from the clutches of the ruthless'?

24 "Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong.

25 How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove?

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

27 You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.

28 "But now be so kind as to look at me. Would I 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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