Job 6:26
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?”
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“Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For reproof--do you reckon words? And for wind--sayings of the desperate.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 6:26 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 2:10“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
- Job 3:3“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
- Job 4:3Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
- Job 6:9that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
- Job 8:2“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
- Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 34:3For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
- Job 38:2“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
- Job 40:5I have spoken once, but I have no answer— twice, but I have nothing to add.”
- Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
- Job 42:3You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
- Job 42:7After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.
- Hosea 12:1Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
- Matthew 12:37For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
- Ephesians 4:14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
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