Job 6:17
By the time they are warm they have been cut off, || By its being hot they have been || Extinguished from their place.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
In Context
16That are black because of ice, || By them snow hides itself.
18The paths turn aside of their way, || They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.
Cross References
1 Kings 17:1And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, says to Ahab, “YHWH, God of Israel, lives, before whom I have stood, there is not dew and rain these years, except according to my word.”
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 →