Job 6:26
Good News Translation
You think I am talking nothing but wind; then why do you answer my words of despair?

New Revised Standard Version
Do you think that you can reprove words, as if the speech of the desperate were wind?

Contemporary English Version
Here I am desperate, and you consider my words as worthless as wind.

New American Bible
Do you consider your words as proof, but the sayings of a desperate man as wind?

Douay-Rheims Bible
You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.

reprove.

Job 2:10 And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.

Job 3:3-26 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived. . . .

Job 4:3,4 Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands: . . .

Job 34:3-9 For the ear trieth words, and the mouth discerneth meats by the taste. . . .

Job 38:2 Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskilful words?

Job 40:5,8 One thing I have spoken, which I wish I had not said: and another, to which I will add no more. . . .

Job 42:3,7 Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have spoken unwisely, and things that above measure exceeded my knowledge. . . .

Matthew 12:37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

one that.

Job 6:4,9 For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me. . . .

Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

as wind.

Job 8:2 How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

Hosea 12:1 Ephraim feedeth on the wind, and followeth the burning heat: all the day long he multiplied lies and desolation: and he hath made a covenant with the Assyrians, and carried oil into Egypt.

Ephesians 4:14 That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive.

Context
Job Replies: My Complaint is Just
25Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me? 26You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.27You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.…
Cross References
Job 6:25
Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me?

Job 8:2
How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

Job 15:2
Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?

Job 16:3
Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?

Job 6:25
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