Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat ¹  the words of a despairing man as wind?

biblegateway Job 6:26

"Do you intend to reprove my words, When the words of one in despair belong to the wind?

Do you think that you can disprove my words or that a despairing man's words are mere wind?

Do you think my words need correction? Do you think they’re what a desperate person says to the wind?

biblegateway Job 6:26

Do you mean to correct what I say, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?

Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?

bibleoremus Job 6:26

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

Do you mean to argue about mere words? Surely such despairing utterance is mere wind.

biblegateway Job 6:26

Do you intend to rebuke my words, And the speeches of a desperate one, which are as wind?

Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind?

biblegateway Job 6:26

Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat ¹  the words of a despairing man as wind?

¹ tn This, in the context, is probably the meaning, although the Hebrew simply has the line after the first half of the verse read: “and as/to wind the words of a despairing man.” The line could be translated “and the words of a despairing man, [which are] as wind.” But this translation follows the same approach as RSV, NIV, and NAB, which take the idiom of the verb (“think, imagine”) with the preposition on “wind” to mean “reckon as wind” – “and treat the words of a despairing man as wind.”