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Job 6:26 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 26. 26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
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Role in This Section
Job 6:26 advances the thought unit with the words “Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?.” Job presses the unit's question through “Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?”, a line that belongs to Job Asks for Evidence Instead of Insinuation.
Read It With
- Job 6:22–6:30
Read Job 6:26 with 6:22–6:30. Read alone, “Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job notes that he requested no payment or rescue, invites correction, and charges the friends with treating desperate words as wind while overwhelming the vulnerable.
Why It Needs Context
Job 6:26 depends on 6:22–6:30; isolating “Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “Job Asks for Evidence Instead of Insinuation.”
Read Job 6:22–30 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 6:22–6:30 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Asks for Evidence Instead of Insinuation.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 22. 22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
Verse 23. 23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
Verse 24. 24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Verse 25. 25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Verse 26. 26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Verse 27. 27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Verse 28. 28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
Verse 29. 29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Verse 30. 30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
Continue in Context
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Read Job 6:22–6:30 — Job Asks for Evidence Instead of InsinuationSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 6:22–6:30, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 6:22–6:30
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