“Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?”
Job questions whether the friends are willing to reprove words and treat the words of one in despair as wind, suggesting that they dismiss his speech as mere emotion rather than engaging with what he is actually saying. The charge of treating his words as wind indicates that they regard his lament as empty and insubstantial. Job protests against the dismissal of his suffering as mere emotional volatility.
Church Fathers on Job 6:26
Ye only set in order speeches to upbraid, and ye speak words against the wind. There are two sorts of speech, which are very troublesome and mischievous to mankind, the one which aims to commend even froward things, the other which studies to be always carping even at right ones. The one is carried downward with the stream, the other sets itself to close the very channels and streams of truth. Fear keeps down the one, pride sets up the other. The one aims to catch favour by…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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