Job 6:21
For now ye are nothing. Ye see a terror, and are afraid.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For now ye are no thing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
In Context
20They were put to shame because they had hoped. They came there, and were confounded.
22Did I say, Give to me? Or, Offer a present for me from your substance?
Cross References
Job 6:15My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away,
Job 19:19All my familiar friends abhor me, and those whom I loved are turned against me.
Psalms 62:9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than vanity.
Isaiah 2:22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for how is he to be accounted of?
Jeremiah 51:9We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each one into his own country. For her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
Matthew 26:56But all this has come to pass, so that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples fled, having forsook him.
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 →