Job 6:15
My brothers have acted as deceptively as a desert stream, rushing waters in the desert that vanish.
Free Bible 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
14Anyone who isn't kind to a friend has given up respecting the Almighty.
16The stream floods when it is full of dark ice and melting snow,
Cross References
Job 13:4As for you, you cover things up by telling lies! You are all like doctors who can't heal anyone!
Job 19:13He has driven my brothers far away from me; all my former friends are estranged from me.
Psalms 38:11My loved ones and my friends don't come near me because they're afraid of what I've got. Even my family keeps me at a distance.
Psalms 55:12The problem is that it's not an enemy who mocks me—I could stand that. It's not someone who hates me who insults me—I could avoid them.
Proverbs 25:19Trusting in unreliable people in times of trouble is like eating with a broken tooth or walking on a bad foot.
Jeremiah 15:18Why doesn't my pain ever stop? Why is my wound incurable? Why can't it be healed? You've really become like a seasonal stream to me, an unreliable source of water.
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 →