The Meaning of Job 6:26 Explained

Job 6:26

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

YLT: For reproof -- do you reckon words? And for wind -- sayings of the desperate.

Darby: Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.

ASV: Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 6:26?

MEANING: What does Job 6:26 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 6:26 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 6:26?

What is the context of Job 6:26?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 6:26 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 6:1-30 - "a Deceitful Brook"

The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of his pain, Job 6:4, or they would have seen it to be as natural as the braying and lowing of hungry and suffering beasts, Job 6:5. A man would not take insipid food without complaint; how much more reason had he to complain whose tears were his meat day and night, Job 6:6-7! So bitter were his pains that he would welcome death, and exult in the throes of dissolution, Job 6:8-10. It could hardly be otherwise than that he should succumb, since he had only the ordinary strength of mortals, and both strength and wisdom were exhausted, Job 6:11-13.

Job next characterizes the assistance of his friends as winter brooks, turbid with melted ice and snow, which bitterly disappoint the travelers who had hoped to find water, and perish beside the dry heaps of stones, Job 6:17. They had found fault with his words, which, in the circumstances, were not a true index to his heart, Job 6:26; but a look into his face would have sufficed to attest his innocence of the sin of which they accused him, Job 6:28-30.

From these complaints of faithlessness and disappointment we turn to Him who, having been made perfect through suffering, has become "the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him," Hebrews 5:9. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 6

¹ Job shows that his complaints are not causeless
⁸ He wishes for death, wherein he is assured of comfort
¹⁴ He reproves his friends of unkindness

What do the individual words in Job 6:26 mean?

do to rebuke [my] words you intend and [which are] as wind the speeches of a desperate one

הַלְהוֹכַ֣ח מִלִּ֣ים תַּחְשֹׁ֑בוּ ؟ וּ֝לְר֗וּחַ אִמְרֵ֥י נֹאָֽשׁ

הַלְהוֹכַ֣ח	do to rebuke
Parse: Preposition, Verb, Hifil, Infinitive construct Root: יָכַח Sense: to prove, decide, judge, rebuke, reprove, correct, be right.
מִלִּ֣ים	[my] words
Parse: Noun, feminine plural Root: מִלָּה Sense: word, speech, utterance.
תַּחְשֹׁ֑בוּ	you intend
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine plural Root: חָשַׁב Sense: to think, plan, esteem, calculate, invent, make a judgment, imagine, count.
؟ וּ֝לְר֗וּחַ	and [which are] as wind
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Noun, common singular Root: רוּחַ Sense: wind, breath, mind, spirit.
אִמְרֵ֥י	the speeches
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct Root: אֵמֶר Sense: utterance, speech, word, saying, promise, command.
נֹאָֽשׁ	of a desperate one
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Participle, masculine singular Root: יָאַשׁ Sense: to despair.

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