Job 6:21

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Summary

Job 6:21

For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

Ye are nothing

Jeremiah 17:5

Ye see

Revelation 18:9

Bible References

Ye are nothing

But my brothers have acted treacherously like a cascading river, like torrential rivers that overflow.

"But as for you, you whitewash with lies; all of you are worthless quacks.

Human beings are a mere vapor, while people in high positions are not what they appear. When they are placed on the scales, they weigh nothing; even when weighed together, they are less than nothing.

"Stop trusting in human beings, whose life breath is in their nostrils, for what are they really worth?"

This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the person who trusts in mankind, who makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the LORD.

Ye see

When Job's three friends heard all these tragedies that happened to him, they each traveled from their home towns to visit him. Eliphaz came from Teman, Bildad came from Shuah, and Zophar came from Naamath. They met together and went to console and comfort him.

As for my friends and my neighbors, they stand aloof from my distress; even my close relatives stand at a distance.

All the relatives of a poor person shun him how much more do his friends avoid him! Though he runs after them pleading, they aren't around.

We tried to heal Babylon, but she wouldn't be healed. Leave her, and let each of us go to his own country. For her judgment has reached to the heavens, and is lifted up to the sky.

Then Jesus told them, "All of you will turn against me this very night, because it is written, "I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

At my first trial no one came to my defense. Everyone abandoned me. May it not be held against them!

The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality with her and lived in luxury with her, will cry and mourn over her when they see the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.