New King James Version
Job 6:26
26Do you intend to rebuke my words, And the speeches of a desperate one, which are as wind?
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 Living Translation (NLT)Do you think your words are convincing when you disregard my cry of desperation?
Context of Job 6:26
24“Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; Cause me to understand wherein I have erred. 25How forceful are right words! But what does your arguing prove? Do you intend to rebuke my words, And the speeches of a desperate one, which are as wind? 27Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, And you undermine your friend. 28Now therefore, be pleased to look at me; For I would never lie to your face.
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הַלְהוֹכַ֣ח מִלִּ֣ים תַּחְשֹׁ֑בוּ וּ֝לְר֗וּחַ אִמְרֵ֥י נֹאָֽשׁ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 6:26
- Job 2:10But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
- Job 3:3“May the day perish on which I was born, And the night in which it was said, ‘A male child is conceived.’
- Job 4:3Surely you have instructed many, And you have strengthened weak hands.
- Job 34:3For the ear tests words As the palate tastes food.
- Job 38:2“Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge?
- Job 40:5Once I have spoken, but I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”
- Job 42:3You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
- Matthew 12:37For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; My spirit drinks in their poison; The terrors of God are arrayed against me.
- Job 10:1“My soul loathes my life; I will give free course to my complaint, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 8:2“How long will you speak these things, And the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
- Hosea 12:1“Ephraim feeds on the wind, And pursues the east wind; He daily increases lies and desolation. Also they make a covenant with the Assyrians, And oil is carried to Egypt.
- Ephesians 4:14that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
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
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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
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