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25 How painful are upright words![a]
But[b] what does your reproof[c] reprove?
26 Do you intend to reprove my words[d]
and consider the words of a desperate man as wind?
27 Even over the orphan you would cast the lot,
and you would bargain over your friend.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:25 Literally “words of uprightness”
  2. Job 6:25 Hebrew “And”
  3. Job 6:25 Literally “reproving from you”
  4. Job 6:26 Or “Do you intend to reprove with words”

25 How painful are honest words!(A)
    But what do your arguments prove?
26 Do you mean to correct what I say,
    and treat my desperate words as wind?(B)
27 You would even cast lots(C) for the fatherless(D)
    and barter away your friend.

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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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