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Job 6:26 Cross-References
Explore 16 cross-references for Job 6:26 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Job chapter 6 verse 26 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?”
Job 6:26 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 6:26
Job accuses his friends of misinterpreting his words of despair as mere 'wind' (ruach, רוּחַ)—empty, meaningless utterance. The verb 'imagine' (chashab, חָשַׁב) means to devise or plan, suggesting his friends are deliberately constructing arguments against him rather than offering compassionate understanding. Job identifies himself as 'desperate' (ya'ash, יָאַשׁ), one who has lost hope—a state that requires grace, not condemnation. This verse addresses a critical pastoral failure: treating the sufferer's anguished cries as theological errors to be corrected rather than as legitimate expression...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 6:26
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“and by your words you will be condemned.,For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.,,,,,,,,”
“tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine”
“and cut me off!”
“and I will not answer; Yes”
“You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.”
“For the arrows of the Almighty are within me”
“that you may be justified?”