Job 6:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.

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  • Job 8:2 : 2 How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
  • Job 10:1 : 1 My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
  • Job 34:3-9 : 3 For words are tested by the ear, as food is tasted by the mouth. 4 Let us make the decision for ourselves as to what is right; let us have the knowledge among ourselves of what is good. 5 For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right; 6 Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong. 7 What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God, 8 And goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners? 9 For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.
  • Job 38:2 : 2 Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?
  • Job 40:5 : 5 Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power:
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.
  • Job 42:3 : 3 Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.
  • Job 42:7 : 7 And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
  • Hos 12:1 : 1 The deceit of Ephraim and the false words of Israel are about me on every side. ...
  • Matt 12:37 : 37 For by your words will your righteousness be seen, and by your words you will be judged.
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;
  • Job 2:10 : 10 And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.
  • Job 3:3-9 : 3 Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world. 4 That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it; 5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it. 6 That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. 7 As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it; 8 Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake. 9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn. 10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes. 11 Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath? 12 Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk? 13 For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace, 14 With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves; 15 Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver; 16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light. 17 There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest. 18 There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears. 19 The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master. 20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul; 21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth; 22 Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place; 23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God? 24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water. 25 For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled. 26 I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.
  • Job 4:3-4 : 3 Truly, you have been a helper to others, and you have made feeble hands strong; 4 He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 25 How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?

  • Job 16:3-4
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    3 May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?

    4 It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:

  • 27 Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

  • Job 15:2-3
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    2 Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?

    3 Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?

  • Job 26:3-4
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    3 How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!

    4 To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

  • 2 How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

  • 13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • 2 How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?

  • 20 Have you seen a man who is quick with his tongue? There is more hope for a foolish man than for him.

  • 25 Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

  • 8 Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.

  • 2 Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

  • 18 As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,

  • Job 13:6-7
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    6 Give ear to the argument of my mouth, and take note of the words of my lips.

    7 Will you say in God's name what is not right, and put false words into his mouth?

  • 22 Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.

  • 16 And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.

  • 2 How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.

  • Job 11:2-3
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    2 Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?

    3 Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

  • 18 How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

  • 21 Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.

  • 29 The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

  • 3 For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.

  • 13 The first words of his mouth are foolish, and the end of his talk is evil crime.

  • Prov 26:4-5
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    4 Do not give to the foolish man a foolish answer, or you will be like him.

    5 Give a foolish man a foolish answer, or he will seem wise to himself.

  • 6 Make no addition to his words, or he will make clear your error, and you will be seen to be false.

  • 25 You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:

  • 21 The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place.

  • 16 All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

  • 9 Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.

  • 16 If you are wise, take note of this; give ear to the voice of my words.

  • 5 A foolish man puts no value on his father's training; but he who has respect for teaching has good sense.

  • 17 You, whose clothing is warm, when the earth is quiet because of the south wind,

  • 6 It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

  • 6 A foolish man's lips are a cause of fighting, and his mouth makes him open to blows.

  • 16 He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.

  • 2 You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.

  • 23 Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.

  • 5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

  • 20 How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

  • 27 When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

  • 9 Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?

  • 17 Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.

  • 9 Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man.

  • 4 The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters: the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.