Job 6:20
They were ashamed that one has trusted, || They have come to it and are confounded.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
In Context
19Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, || Travelers of Sheba hoped for them.
21Surely now you have become the same! You see a downfall, and are afraid.
Cross References
Job 13:4And yet, you [are] forgers of falsehood, || Physicians of nothing—all of you,
Proverbs 25:19A bad tooth, and a tottering foot, || [Is] the confidence of the treacherous in a day of adversity.
Jeremiah 17:13The hope of Israel [is] YHWH, || All forsaking You are ashamed. “And My apostates are written in the earth, || For they have forsaken YHWH, || A fountain of living waters.”
Romans 9:33according as it has been written: “Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and everyone who is believing thereon will not be ashamed.”
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 →