25 How [a]steadfast are the words of righteousness? and what can any of you justly reprove?

26 Do ye imagine to reprove [b]words, that the talk of the afflicted should be as the wind?

27 Ye make your wrath to fall upon the fatherless, and dig a pit for your friend.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:25 He that hath a good conscience doth not shrink at the sharp words or reasonings of others, except they be able to persuade him by reason.
  2. Job 6:26 Do you cavil at my words because I should be thought to speak foolishly, which am now in misery?

25 How painful are honest words!(A)
    But what do your arguments prove?
26 Do you mean to correct what I say,
    and treat my desperate words as wind?(B)
27 You would even cast lots(C) for the fatherless(D)
    and barter away your friend.

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