Job 6:21

For now you friends are nothing to me; 1 you see my dreadful situation and are afraid. 1

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In The King James Version

For now ye are no thing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

In Context

20They were disappointed because they had been confident of finding water. 1 They went there, but they were deceived. 1

22Did I say to you, 'Give something to me?' 1 Or, 'Offer me a gift from your wealth?' 1

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Cross References

Job 6:15But my brothers have been as faithful to me as a desert streambed, 1 as channels of water that pass away to nothing, 1

Job 19:19All my familiar friends abhor me; 1 those whom I love have turned against me. 1

Psalms 62:9Surely men of low standing are vanity, and men of high standing are a lie; 1 they will weigh lightly in the scales; 1 weighed together, they are lighter than nothing. 1

Isaiah 2:22Stop trusting in man, whose life-breath is in his nostrils, 1 for what does he amount to?

Jeremiah 51:9'We wished to heal Babylon, but she is not healed. Let us all leave her and go away, 1 to our own land. For her guilt reaches up to the heavens; it is piled up to the clouds. 1

Matthew 26:56But all this has happened so that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and 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 →

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