Job 6:17

17 but that stop flowing in the dry season, and in the heat vanish from their channels.

Job 6:17 in Other Translations

17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

17 When they melt, they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

17 But when the hot weather arrives, the water disappears. The brook vanishes in the heat.

17 But by midsummer they're dry, gullies baked dry in the sun.

17 The wadis evaporate in warm weather; they disappear from their channels in hot weather.

Job 6:17 Meaning and Commentary

Job 6:17

What time they wax warm they vanish
The ice and the snow, which, when the weather becomes warm, they melt away and disappear; and in like manner, he suggests his friends ceased to be friends to him in a time of adversity; the sun of affliction having looked upon him, they deserted him, at least did not administer comfort to him:

when it is hot they are consumed out of their place;
when it is hot weather, and the sun has great strength then the waters, which swelled through the floods and fall of rain and snow, and which when frozen, looked black and big as if they had great depth in them, were quickly dried up, and no more to be seen in the place where they were; which still expresses the short duration of friendship among men, which Job had a sorrowful experience of.

Job 6:17 In-Context

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.

Cross References

• 1. Job 24:19