KJV ORIGINAL
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
Do you think you can criticize my words and the desperate speeches of someone who has nothing left, which are just empty air?
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Job is asking his friends if they really think it's fair to judge the desperate words of someone who has lost everything.
📚 Historical Context
Job is responding to his friend Eliphaz, who has just criticized Job's passionate complaints about his suffering. In ancient Middle Eastern culture, friends were expected to comfort the grieving, not lecture them about their emotional responses. Job feels his friends are being harsh and unsympathetic to his desperate situation.
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