Job 6:19

19 Las miraron los caminantes de Temán, los caminantes de Sabá esperaron en ellas

Job 6:19 Meaning and Commentary

Job 6:19

The troops of Tema looked
A city in Arabia, so called from Tema a son of Ishmael, ( Genesis 25:15 ) ; these troops or companies were travelling ones, either that travelled to Tema, or that went from thence to other places for merchandise, see ( Isaiah 21:13 Isaiah 21:14 ) ; these, as they passed along in their caravans, as the Turks their successors now do, looked at those places where in the wintertime they observed large waters frozen over, and covered with snow, and expected to have been supplied from thence in the summer season, for the extinguishing of their thirst:

the companies of Sheba waited for them:
another people in Arabia, which went in companies through the deserts, where being in great want of water for their refreshment, waited patiently till they came to those places, where they hoped to find water to relieve them, which they had before marked in the wintertime.

Job 6:19 In-Context

17 Que al tiempo del calor son deshechas, y calentándose, desaparecen de su lugar

18 apártanse de las sendas de su camino, suben en vano y se pierden

19 Las miraron los caminantes de Temán, los caminantes de Sabá esperaron en ellas

20 pero fueron avergonzados por su esperanza; porque vinieron hasta ellas, y se hallaron confusos

21 Ahora ciertamente vosotros sois como ellas; que habéis visto el tormento, y teméis