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Job 6:26
Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
Job 6:26 · World English Bible
Job 6:26 in other translations
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
Do you intend to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
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In context
23 or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand’? or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors’?
24 “Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.
25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
26 Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
27 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
28 Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I will not lie to your face.
29 Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.
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