Job 6:15

What does Job 6:15 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 6:15 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

My brethren have passed by me, as the torrent that passeth swiftly in the valleys.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a stream, as the channel of streams which pass away,

Context

v.14To him that is ready to faint kindness should be showed from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

v.15This passage

v.16Which are black by reason of the ice, And wherein the snow hideth itself:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jude 1:12

    These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

  • Psalms 88:18

    Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness.

  • Psalms 38:11

    My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.

  • John 13:18

    I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth my bread lifted up his heel against me.

  • Jeremiah 30:14

    All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased.

  • Psalms 55:12

    For it was not an enemy that reproached me; Then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; Then I would have hid myself from him:

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