Job 6:21
For truly now ye are like such a one: ye see my terrible state and are afraid.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
For now ye are no thing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
In Context
20But they stand ashamed because they had trusted; they come thither and are made to blush.
22Have I then ever said, Give me something, and out of your property offer a bribe in my behalf?
Cross References
Job 6:15My brothers are treacherous as a brook, like flowing brooks they pass along;
Job 19:19All that have had my confidence abominate me; and those whom I have loved are turned against me.
Psalms 62:9(62:10) Verily nought are the sons of common men, a lie the sons of the great; they must rise in the balance; they are altogether [lighter] than nought.
Isaiah 2:22Withdraw yourselves [then] from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; because, for what is he to be esteemed?
Jeremiah 51:9“We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one unto his own country; for her punishment reacheth unto the heavens, and it 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 →