NET Bible
"Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?"
— Job 6:26, NET Bible
“Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?”
“Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind? ”
“Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?”
“You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the 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 reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?”
Or‘Deliver me from the enemy’s power, and from the hand of tyrants ransom me’?
No Sin Discovered“Teach me and I, for my part, will be silent; explain to me how I have been mistaken.
How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove?
Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?
Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.
Other Explanation“Now then, be good enough to look at me; and I will not lie to your face!
Relent, let there be no falsehood; reconsider, for my righteousness is intact!