Job 6:21
Similarly, you friends have not helped me at all! You have seen that terrible things have happened to me, and you are afraid that God might do similar things to you.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
For now ye are no thing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
In Context
20But they do not find any, so they are very disappointed.
Cross References
Job 6:15But you, my friends, are not dependable. You are like streams: They spill over their banks in the spring
Job 19:19My dearest friends detest me, and those whom I love very much have turned against me.
Psalms 62:9People who are considered to be unimportant are as worthless/unreliable as a breath of air; people who are considered to be important also really ◄amount to nothing/cannot be trusted to help us►. If you put them all on a scale, it would be as if they weighed less than a puff of air.
Isaiah 2:22So, do not trust that people will save you, because people are as powerless as [MET] their own breath. People certainly cannot help you [RHQ]!
Jeremiah 51:9We foreigners would have tried to heal them, but now they cannot be healed. So we will not try to help them; we will abandon them, and return to our own lands, because it is as though the punishment they are receiving is so great that it reaches up to the clouds in sky, so great that no one can measure it.
Matthew 26:56But all this is happening to fulfill what the prophets have written in the Scriptures about me.” Then all of us disciples deserted Jesus and ran away.
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 →