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Job 6:25-27
Evangelical Heritage Version
Job 6:25-27
Evangelical Heritage Version
25 How painful honest words are!
But what does your rebuke prove?
26 Do you intend to attack me for mere words
by treating things said by a despairing man like wind?[a]
27 No doubt you would even cast lots for a fatherless child
and barter away your friend!
Footnotes
- Job 6:26 This verse is difficult.
Job 6:25-27
King James Version
Job 6:25-27
King James Version
25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
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.
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Job 6:25-27
New International Version
Job 6:25-27
New International Version
Job 6:25-27
English Standard Version
Job 6:25-27
English Standard Version
25 How forceful are upright words!
But what does reproof from you reprove?
26 Do you think that you can reprove words,
when the speech of a despairing man is (A)wind?
27 You would even (B)cast lots over the fatherless,
and bargain over your friend.
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