Job 6:26

Job 6:26 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
• New International Version (NIV)Do you mean to correct what I say, and treat my desperate words as wind?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Do you intend to rebuke my words, And the speeches of a desperate one, which are as wind?

Context of Job 6:26

24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. 25How forcible are right words! but what doth your upbraiding reprove? Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind. 27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig [a pit] for your friend. 28Now therefore if ye will, look upon me; and it shall be to your face if I lie.

Job 6:26 word by word

הַלְהוֹכַ֣ח מִלִּ֣ים תַּחְשֹׁ֑בוּ וּ֝לְר֗וּחַ אִמְרֵ֥י נֹאָֽשׁ׃Read the interlinear

• reproveיָכַחyâkach · to rebukeH3198
• wordsאֵמֶר'êmer · wordH561
• windרוּחַrûach · spirit: breathH7307

Cross-references for Job 6:26

• Job 2:10But he said to her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. We have also received good from God, and should we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
• Job 3:3Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.
• Job 4:3Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands;
• Job 34:3For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.
• Job 38:2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
• Job 40:5Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; yea twice, but I will proceed no further.
• Job 42:3Who is he that obscureth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered what I did not understand; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
• Matthew 12:37for by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
• Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
• Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Job 8:2How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?
• Hosea 12:1Ephraim feedeth on wind, and pursueth after the east wind: all day long he multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
• Ephesians 4:14in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of that teaching [which is] in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error;

Commentaries on Job 6:26

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 26Do ye imagine to reprove words - Is it some expressions which in my hurry, and under the pressure of unprecedented affliction, I have uttered, that ye catch at? You can find no flaw in my conduct; would ye make me an Offender for a Word? Why endeavor to take such advantage of a man who complains in the bitterness of his heart, through despair of life and happiness?Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 26Do ye imagine to reprove words? - A considerable variety of interpretation has occurred in regard to this verse. Dr. Good, following Schultens, supposes that the word translated wind here רוּח rûach means sighs, or groans, and renders it, Would ye then take up words for reproof, The mere venting the means of despair? But Rosenmuller has well remarked that the word never has this signification. Noyes renders it, Do ye mean to censure words? The words of a…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-30Verses 14-30 In his prosperity Job formed great expectations from his friends, but now was disappointed. This he compares to the failing of brooks in summer. Those who rest their expectations on the creature, will find it fail when it should help them; whereas those who make God their confidence, have help in the time of need, He 4:16. Those who make gold their hope, sooner or later will be ashamed of it, and of their confidence in it. It is our wisdom to…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-27Job and his friends might have shared a covenant (special agreement) of loyalty and faith (Hebrew khesed; see Genesis 21:23; Exodus 15:13; 1 Chronicles 16:34). This bond would have made them like brothers, those who protect, and friends he could trust (Job 6:14–15; 6:21–23, 27). If they were in a covenant with one another, Job was accusing his friends of violating their covenant with him.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2626. Do you imagine--or, "mean." to reprove words and (to reprove) the speeches of one desperate, (which are) as wind?--mere nothings, not to be so narrowly taken to task? Umbreit not so well takes the Hebrew for "as wind," as "sentiments"; making formal "sentiments" antithetical to mere "speeches," and supplying, not the word "reprove," but "would you regard," from the first clause.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 6:26

• Afflictions and Adversities

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Commentaries on Job 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings