Job 6:26
What does Job 6:26 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 6:26 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862For reproof--do you reckon words? And for wind--sayings of the desperate.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.
Context
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.
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