Job 6:26

Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat ¹  the words of a despairing man as wind?

Job 2:10; Job 3:3-26; Job 4:3,4; Job 6:4,9; Job 8:2; Job 10:1; Job 34:3-9; Job 38:2; Job 40:5,8; Job 42:3,7; Ho 12:1; Mt 12:37; Eph 4:14

¹ tn This, in the context, is probably the meaning, although the Hebrew simply has the line after the first half of the verse read: “and as/to wind the words of a despairing man.” The line could be translated “and the words of a despairing man, [which are] as wind.” But this translation follows the same approach as RSV, NIV, and NAB, which take the idiom of the verb (“think, imagine”) with the preposition on “wind” to mean “reckon as wind” – “and treat the words of a despairing man as wind.”