Job 6:21
For now ye are become His; ye see a terror, and are afraid.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
For now ye are no thing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
In Context
20They were ashamed because they had hoped; they came thither, and were confounded.
22Did I say: 'Give unto me'? or: 'Offer a present for me of your substance'?
Cross References
Job 6:15My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that overflow,
Job 19:19All my intimate friends abhor me; and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Psalms 62:9(62-10) Men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; if they be laid in the balances, they are together lighter than vanity.
Isaiah 2:22Cease ye from man, in whose nostrils is a breath; for how little is he to be accounted!
Jeremiah 51:9We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed; forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
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 →