Job 6:20
They have been thrown into confusion, just as I had hoped; they have even come to me and are overwhelmed with shame.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
In Context
19Consider the paths of Thema, the ways of Saba, and wait a little while.
21Now you have arrived, and merely by seeing my affliction, you are afraid.
Cross References
Job 13:4having first shown that you fabricate lies and cultivate perverse teachings.
Proverbs 25:19Whoever sets his hopes on the unfaithful in a day of anguish is like a rotten tooth and weary foot,
Jeremiah 17:13O Lord, Hope of Israel: all who forsake you will be confounded. Those who withdraw from you will be written into the earth. For they have abandoned the Lord, the Source of living waters.
Romans 9:33just as it was written: “Behold, I am placing a stumbling block in Zion, and a rock of scandal. But whoever believes in him shall not be confounded.”
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 →