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 · 2000My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;
KJV
King James Version · 1611My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752My brethren have passed by me, as the torrent that passeth swiftly in the valleys.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a stream, as the channel of streams which pass away,
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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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