Job 6:20
But they were confounded: when they hoped, they came thither and were ashamed.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
In Context
19They that go to Tema, considered them, and they that goe to Sheba, waited for them.
21Surely nowe are ye like vnto it: ye haue seene my fearefull plague, and are afraide.
Cross References
Job 13:4For in deede ye forge lyes, and all you are physitions of no value.
Proverbs 25:19Confidence in an vnfaythfull man in time of trouble, is like a broken tooth and a sliding foote.
Jeremiah 17:13O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee, shall be confounded: they that depart from thee, shalbe written in the earth, because they haue forsaken the Lord, the fountaine of liuing waters.
Romans 9:33As it is written, Beholde, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone, and a rocke to make men fall: and euery one that beleeueth in him, shall 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 →