Job 6:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For now you are of no help; you see terror, and you are afraid.”
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BSBPD
“For now you are of no help; you see terror, and you are afraid.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“For now ye are nothing; Ye see a terror, and are afraid.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 6:21 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 2:11Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.
- Job 6:15But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,
- Job 13:4You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
- 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 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Proverbs 19:7All the brothers of a poor man hate him— how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.
- Isaiah 2:22Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
- Jeremiah 17:5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
- Jeremiah 51:9“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
- Matthew 26:31Then Jesus said to them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of Me. For it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
- Matthew 26:56But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.
- 2 Timothy 4:16At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.
- Revelation 18:9Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.
- Revelation 18:17For in a single hour such fabulous wealth has been destroyed!” Every shipmaster, passenger, and sailor, and all who make their living from the sea, will stand at a distance
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