Job 6:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,”
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“But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;”
King James Version · Public Domain“My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 6:15 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 11:16For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.
- Job 13:4You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
- Job 14:11As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,
- Job 19:13He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
- Job 19:19All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
- Psalms 38:11My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
- Psalms 41:9Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
- Psalms 55:12For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.
- Psalms 88:18You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
- Proverbs 25:19Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.
- Jeremiah 9:4“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.
- Jeremiah 15:18Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me— water that is not there.
- Jeremiah 30:14All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.
- Jeremiah 38:22All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: ‘They misled you and overcame you— those trusted friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.’
- Micah 7:5Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.
- John 13:18I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: ‘The one who shares My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’
- John 16:32“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.
- Jude 1:12These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
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