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New American Standard Bible
Job 6:26
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Do you think that you can disprove my wordsor that a despairing man’s words are mere wind?
Do you intend to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?
Do you mean to correct what I say? Will you treat the words of a troubled man as if they were only wind?
Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?
"Do you intend to reprove my words [with a convincing argument], When the words of one in despair belong to the wind [and go ignored]?
Do you intend to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
Doe ye imagine to reproue wordes, that the talke of the afflicted should be as the winde?
Do you think to reprove my words,Or think of the words of one in despair as wind?
Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
Here I am desperate, and you consider my words as worthless as wind.
Do you think [your own] words constitute argument, while the speech of a desperate man is merely wind?
Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.
Do you plan to criticize me? Will you speak more tiring words?
Behold you are seeking to find words with which to reprove, and against my soul you are conjuring up words.
You think I am talking nothing but wind; then why do you answer my words of despair?
Do you intend to reprove my words and consider the words of a desperate man as wind?
Do you intend to criticize words, and the speeches of one who is caused to despair, that are as wind?
which of you can reproue them? Sauynge only that ye are sotyll to check mens sayenges, and can speake many wordes in the wynde.
Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?
My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.
Do ye imagine to reproue wordes, that the talke of the afflicted shoulde be as the winde?
Do ye hold words to be an argument, but the speeches of one that is desperate to be wind?
Do ye imagine to reproue words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as winde?
Neither will your reproof cause me to cease my words, for neither will I endure the sound of your speech.
Do ye imagine to reprove words? seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind.
Ye maken redi spechis oneli for to blame, and ye bryngen forth wordis in to wynde.
Do you think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind?
Do you intend to rebuke my words, And the speeches of a desperate one, which are as wind?
Do you think your words are convincing when you disregard my cry of desperation?
Do you think you can speak against my words, and act as if the words of a man without hope are wind?
Do you think that you can reprove words, as if the speech of the desperate were wind?
To decide words, do ye intend, When, to the wind, are spoken the sayings of one in despair?
You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.
Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?
For reproof -- do you reckon words? And for wind -- sayings of the desperate.
"Do you intend to reprove my words, When the words of one in despair belong to the wind?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
reprove: Job 2:10, Job 3:3-26, Job 4:3, Job 4:4, Job 34:3-9, Job 38:2, Job 40:5, Job 40:8, Job 42:3, Job 42:7, Matthew 12:37
one that: Job 6:4, Job 6:9, Job 10:1
as wind: Job 8:2, Hosea 12:1, Ephesians 4:14
Reciprocal: Job 7:11 - I will not Job 15:2 - vain knowledge Job 16:3 - vain words Jeremiah 5:13 - the prophets
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Do ye imagine to reprove words,.... Or with words; with bare words, without any force of reasoning and argument in them? put a parcel of words together without any sense or meaning, or however without any cogency in them, and think to run me down with them? or is your scheme and device only, and which you pursue, to catch at and lay hold on some words of mine uttered in my distress, and make me an offender for a word, or for a few words, supposing they have been rashly and passionately spoken? have ye no facts to charge me with, before or since these calamities befell me? is the charge of hypocrisy and want of the fear of God to be supported by producing some hasty expressions, without pointing at one single action in my life and conversation?
and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind? that is, do ye imagine to reprove them? or, are; your thoughts wholly and solely intent on them? are these only the strong reasons you have to produce to fix the sin of hypocrisy upon me? for by him that is "desperate" he means himself; not that he despaired of his everlasting salvation; he was far from despair; he was a strong believer, and determined that, though he was slain, he would trust in the Lord; he was well assured he should be justified, both here and hereafter; and full well knew that his Redeemer lived, and that though he died, he should rise again and be happy in the vision of God for ever: but he despaired of a restoration to outward happiness, which Eliphaz had suggested, should he behave well; but, alas! his condition was forlorn and miserable, and there was no hope with him of being better; his children were dead, his substance in the hands of robbers, his health so extremely bad that he had no expectation of a recovery to his former state; and therefore it was very unkind and ungenerous to lay hold upon and aggravate the speeches of such an one, and improve them against him; and especially as they were only "for refreshment" c, as some choose to render the words, see Job 32:20; they were uttered to give vent to his sorrow and grief, and not with any ill design against God or men; or the sense of the whole is, that they imagined that their words were right and fit to reprove with, and that there were force and strength in them, and had a tendency to work conviction and bring to confession; but as for the words of Job, they treated them "as wind"; as idle, vain, and empty, and useless and fruitless as the wind.
c ×ר×× "ad respirium", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Do 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 ר×Ö¼× ruÌach 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 man in despair are but wind.
In this, he has probably expressed the true sense. This explanation was proposed by Ludov. de Dieu, and is adopted by Rosenmuller. According to this, the sense is, âDo you think it reasonable to carp at mere words? Will you pass over weighty and important arguments and facts, and dwell upon the words merely that are extorted from a man in misery? Do you not know that one in a state of despair utters many expressions which ought not to be regarded as the result of his deliberate judgment? And will you spend your time in dwelling on those words rather than on the main argument involved?â This is probably the true sense of the verse; and if so it is a complaint of Job that they were disposed to make him âan offender for a wordâ rather than to enter into the real merits of the case, and especially that they were not disposed to make allowances for the hasty expressions of a man almost in despair.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 6:26. Do 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 endeavour to take such advantage of a man who complains in the bitterness of his heart, through despair of life and happiness?
