Job 6:14-21

14 “Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
15 But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow
16 when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow,
17 but that stop flowing in the dry season, and in the heat vanish from their channels.
18 Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go off into the wasteland and perish.
19 The caravans of Tema look for water, the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.
20 They are distressed, because they had been confident; they arrive there, only to be disappointed.
21 Now you too have proved to be of no help; you see something dreadful and are afraid.

Cross References 11

  • 1. S Job 4:5
  • 2. 1 Samuel 20:42; Job 15:4
  • 3. Job 12:4; Job 17:2,6; Job 19:19,21; Job 21:3; Job 30:1,10; Psalms 38:11; Psalms 69:20; 1 John 3:17
  • 4. S Genesis 17:1
  • 5. Job 13:4; Job 16:2; Job 21:34; Psalms 22:1; Psalms 38:11; Jeremiah 15:18
  • 6. Psalms 147:18
  • 7. Job 24:19
  • 8. S Genesis 25:15; Isaiah 21:14
  • 9. S Genesis 10:7,28
  • 10. Jeremiah 14:3; Joel 1:11
  • 11. Psalms 38:11
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