New Living Translation
Job 6:26
26Do you think your words are convincing when you disregard my cry of desperation?
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 keep quiet. Show me what I have done wrong. 25Honest words can be painful, but what do your criticisms amount to? Do you think your words are convincing when you disregard my cry of desperation? 27You would even send an orphan into slavery or sell a friend. 28Look at me! Would I lie to your face?
Read all of Job 6Job 6:26 word by word
הַלְהוֹכַ֣ח מִלִּ֣ים תַּחְשֹׁ֑בוּ וּ֝לְר֗וּחַ אִמְרֵ֥י נֹאָֽשׁ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 6:26
- Job 2:10But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.
- Job 3:3“Let the day of my birth be erased, and the night I was conceived.
- Job 4:3“In the past you have encouraged many people; you have strengthened those who were weak.
- Job 34:3Job said, ‘The ear tests the words it hears just as the mouth distinguishes between foods.’
- Job 38:2“Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorant words?
- Job 40:5I have said too much already. I have nothing more to say.”
- Job 42:3You asked, ‘Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorance?’ It is I—and I was talking about things I knew nothing about, things far too wonderful for me.
- Matthew 12:37The words you say will either acquit you or condemn you.”
- Job 6:4For the Almighty has struck me down with his arrows. Their poison infects my spirit. God’s terrors are lined up against me.
- Job 10:1“I am disgusted with my life. Let me complain freely. My bitter soul must complain.
- Job 8:2“How long will you go on like this? You sound like a blustering wind.
- Hosea 12:1The people of Israel feed on the wind; they chase after the east wind all day long. They pile up lies and violence; they are making an alliance with Assyria while sending olive oil to buy support from Egypt.
- Ephesians 4:14Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth.
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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