26 Do ye imagine to reprove [a]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.

28 Now therefore be content to [b]look upon me: for I will not lie before your face.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:26 Do you cavil at my words because I should be thought to speak foolishly, which am now in misery?
  2. Job 6:28 Consider whether I speak as one that is driven to this impatience through very sorrow, or as an hypocrite as you condemn me.

26 Do you mean to correct what I say,
    and treat my desperate words as wind?(A)
27 You would even cast lots(B) for the fatherless(C)
    and barter away your friend.

28 “But now be so kind as to look at me.
    Would I lie to your face?(D)

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