Verse Comparison: Job 6:26
American Standard Version
Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?
Amplified® Bible
Do you imagine your words to be an argument, but the speeches of one who is desperate to be as wind?
Contemporary English Version
Here I am desperate, and you consider my words as worthless as wind.
Darby English Version
Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.
Good News Bible
You think I am talking nothing but wind; then why do you answer my words of despair?
King James Version
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
New American Standard Bible
"Do you intend to reprove {my} words, When the words of one in despair belong to the wind?
New International Version
Do you mean to correct what I say,
and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?
New King James Version
Do you intend to rebuke my words,
And the speeches of a desperate one, which are as wind?
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"Do you intend to reprove my words, When the words of one in despair belong to the wind?
Revised Standard Version
Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?
Young's Literal Translation
For reproof -- do you reckon words? And for wind -- sayings of the desperate.
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