Job 6:21
Surely now you have become the same! You see a downfall, and are afraid.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For now ye are no thing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
In Context
20They were ashamed that one has trusted, || They have come to it and are confounded.
22Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me?
Cross References
Job 6:15My brothers have deceived as a brook, || As a stream of brooks they pass away.
Job 19:19All the men of my counsel detest me, || And those I have loved, || Have been turned against me.
Psalms 62:9Surely vanity the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up || They [are] lighter than a breath.
Isaiah 2:22Cease yourselves from man, || Whose breath [is] in his nostrils, || For—in what is he esteemed?
Jeremiah 51:9We healed Babylon, and she was not healed, || Forsake her, and we go, each to his land, || For her judgment has come to the heavens, || And it has been lifted up to the clouds.
Matthew 26:56but all this has come to pass, that the Writings of the prophets may be fulfilled”; then all the disciples, having left Him, fled.
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 →