Job 6:26-30
The Message
24-27 “Confront me with the truth and I’ll shut up,
show me where I’ve gone off the track.
Honest words never hurt anyone,
but what’s the point of all this pious bluster?
You pretend to tell me what’s wrong with my life,
but treat my words of anguish as so much hot air.
Are people mere things to you?
Are friends just items of profit and loss?
28-30 “Look me in the eyes!
Do you think I’d lie to your face?
Think it over—no double-talk!
Think carefully—my integrity is on the line!
Can you detect anything false in what I say?
Don’t you trust me to discern good from evil?”
Job 6:26-30
New International Version
Footnotes
- Job 6:29 Or my righteousness still stands
Job 6:26-30
King James Version
26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
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Job 6:26-30
New King James Version
26 Do you intend to rebuke my words,
And the speeches of a desperate one, which are as wind?
27 Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless,
And you (A)undermine your friend.
28 Now therefore, be pleased to look at me;
For I would never lie to your face.
29 (B)Yield now, let there be no injustice!
Yes, concede, my (C)righteousness [a]still stands!
30 Is there injustice on my tongue?
Cannot my [b]taste discern the unsavory?
Job 6:26-30
The Message
24-27 “Confront me with the truth and I’ll shut up,
show me where I’ve gone off the track.
Honest words never hurt anyone,
but what’s the point of all this pious bluster?
You pretend to tell me what’s wrong with my life,
but treat my words of anguish as so much hot air.
Are people mere things to you?
Are friends just items of profit and loss?
28-30 “Look me in the eyes!
Do you think I’d lie to your face?
Think it over—no double-talk!
Think carefully—my integrity is on the line!
Can you detect anything false in what I say?
Don’t you trust me to discern good from evil?”
Job 6:26-28
New International Version
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)
Job 6:26-28
King James Version
26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
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Job 6:26-28
New King James Version
26 Do you intend to rebuke my words,
And the speeches of a desperate one, which are as wind?
27 Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless,
And you (A)undermine your friend.
28 Now therefore, be pleased to look at me;
For I would never lie to your face.
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