Job 6:20
They were disappointed because they had been confident of finding water. 1 They went there, but they were deceived. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
In Context
19Caravans from Tema looked there, 1 while companies of Sheba hoped in them. 1
21For now you friends are nothing to me; 1 you see my dreadful situation and are afraid. 1
Cross References
Job 13:4But you whitewash the truth with lies; 1 you are all physicians of no value. 1
Proverbs 25:19An unfaithful man in whom you trust in a time of trouble 1 is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips. 1
Jeremiah 17:13Yahweh is the hope of Israel. All who abandon you will be put to shame; those in the land who turn away from you will be written in the earth, 1 for they have forsaken Yahweh, the fountain of living waters. 1
Romans 9:33as it has been written, 1 “Look, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. 1 He who believes in it 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 →