Job 6:26

6:26 Do you intend to criticize mere words,

and treat ¹  the words of a despairing man as wind?

Job 22:4

22:4 Is it because of your piety ²  that he rebukes you

and goes to judgment with you? ³ 

[6:26]  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.”

[22:4]  ² tn The word “your fear” or “your piety” refers to Job’s reverence – it is his fear of God (thus a subjective genitive). When “fear” is used of religion, it includes faith and adoration on the positive side, fear and obedience on the negative.

[22:4]  ³ sn Of course the point is that God does not charge Job because he is righteous; the point is he must be unrighteous.