Job 6:15
My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
In Context
14To a despiser of his friends [is] shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.
16That are black because of ice, By them doth snow hide itself.
Cross References
Job 13:4And yet, ye [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought — all of you,
Job 19:13My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.
Psalms 38:11My lovers and my friends over-against my plague stand. And my neighbours afar off have stood.
Psalms 55:12For an enemy reproacheth me not, or I bear [it], He who is hating me Hath not magnified himself against me, Or I hide from him.
Proverbs 25:19A bad tooth, and a tottering foot, [Is] the confidence of the treacherous in a day of adversity.
Jeremiah 15:18Why hath my pain been perpetual? And my wound incurable? It hath refused to be healed, Thou art surely to me as a failing stream, Waters not stedfast.
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 →