Job 6:15

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Summary

Job 6:15

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

My brethren

As the stream

Jeremiah 15:18

Jude 1:12

Bible References

My brethren

All my familiar friends abhor me, and those whom I loved are turned against me.

Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.

Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

For it was not an enemy who reproached me. Then I could have borne it. Neither was it he who hated me that magnified himself against me. Then I would have hid myself from him.

Thou have put beloved and friend far from me, and my acquaintances into darkness.

Take ye heed each one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother, for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

All who love thee have forgotten thee; they seek thee not. For I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased.

Trust ye not in a neighbor. Put ye not confidence in a friend. Keep the doors of thy mouth from her who lays in thy bosom.

I speak not about you all. I have seen whom I chose, but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He who eats bread with me lifted up his heel against me.

Behold, the hour comes, and now has come, that ye will be scattered, each man to his own things, and ye will leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

As the stream

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will thou indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

These are reefs in your love-feasts, feasting together, fearlessly tending to themselves, waterless clouds carried along by winds, autumn trees without fruit, who died twice having being uprooted,