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 close friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved have turned against me.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

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

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.

Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.

All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquity; because your sins were increased.

Trust not in a friend, put not confidence in a companion: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom.

I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.

Behold, the hour comes, yea, is now come, that you shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall 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 you be altogether unto me as a deceitful brook, and as waters that fail?

These are spots in your love feasts, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about by winds; trees whose fruit withers, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;