Job 6:15

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away,

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

14To him who is ready to faint, kindness [should be] from his friend, even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

16which are black because of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.

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Cross References

Job 13:4But ye are forgers of lies. Ye are all physicians of no value.

Job 19:13He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

Psalms 38:11Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.

Psalms 55:12For it was not an enemy who reproached me. Then I could have borne it. Neither was it he who hated me that magnified himself against me. Then I would have hid myself from him.

Proverbs 25:19Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

Jeremiah 15:18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will thou indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

Matthew Henry on Job 6:15-22

14 To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. 15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; 16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: 17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. 18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish. 19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.… Read the whole commentary →

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