Job 6:26

Job chapter 6 · verse 26 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?

Context

v.25How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?

v.26This passage

v.27Yea, ye would castlotsupon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 38:2

    Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge?

  • Ephesians 4:14

    that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

  • Matthew 12:37

    For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

  • Job 4:3

    Behold, thou hast instructed many, And thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

  • Job 2:10

    But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

  • Job 42:3

    Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.