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Job 6:26 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Job 6:26Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 6:266 words
HebrewMeaning
הַ/לְ/הוֹכַ֣חhaləhwōkaḥ
¿ to reproveparticleH3198
argue · chasten · convince · correct ···
מִלִּ֣יםmiliym
wordsnounH4405
answer · matter · any thing to say · to speak ···
תַּחְשֹׁ֑בוּtaḥəšōbw
do you planverbH2803
conceive · consider · count · cunning (man ···
וּ֝/לְ/ר֗וּחַwlərwḥa
and to windconjH7307
anger · blast · breath · cool ···
אִמְרֵ֥יʾimərēy
the words ofnounH561
appointed unto him · saying · speech · word
נֹאָֽשׁnōʾāš
one who despairsverbH2976
one that is desperate · be no hope
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

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…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 7 §56
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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