Job 6:26

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 8:2 : 2 “How long will you speak these things, seeing that the words of your mouth are like a great wind?
  • Job 10:1 : 1 An Appeal for Revelation“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 34:3-9 : 3 For the ear assesses words as the mouth tastes food. 4 Let us evaluate for ourselves what is right; let us come to know among ourselves what is good. 5 For Job says,‘I am innocent, but God turns away my right. 6 Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.’ 7 What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water! 8 He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men. 9 For he says,‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’
  • Job 38:2 : 2 “Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?
  • Job 40:5 : 5 I have spoken once, but I cannot answer; twice, but I will say no more.”
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
  • Job 42:3 : 3 you asked,‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ But I have declared without understanding things too wonderful for me to know.
  • Job 42:7 : 7 After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite,“My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.
  • Hos 12:1 : 1 Ephraim continually feeds on the wind; he chases the east wind all day; he multiplies lies and violence. They make treaties with Assyria, and send olive oil as tribute to Egypt.
  • Matt 12:37 : 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.
  • Job 2:10 : 10 But he replied,“You’re talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?” In all this Job did not sin by what he said.
  • Job 3:3-9 : 3 “Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said,‘A man has been conceived!’ 4 That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it! 5 Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it! 6 That night– let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months! 7 Indeed, let that night be barren; let no shout of joy penetrate it! 8 Let those who curse the day curse it– those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan. 9 Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn, 10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes! 11 Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb? 12 Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them? 13 For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace 14 with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate, 15 or with princes who possessed gold, who filled their palaces with silver. 16 Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light? 17 There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest. 18 There the prisoners relax together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor. 19 Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master. 20 Longing for Death“Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter, 21 to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures, 22 who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave? 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in? 24 For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water. 25 For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me. 26 I have no ease, I have no quietness; I cannot rest; turmoil has come upon me.”
  • Job 4:3-4 : 3 Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands. 4 Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.

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    22You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.

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    16So Job opens his mouth to no purpose; without knowledge he multiplies words.”

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