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


In Context

23 And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, From the hand of terrible ones ransom me?

24 Shew me, and I — I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.

25 How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?

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

27 Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.

28 And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do 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 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 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?