Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a stream, as the channel of streams which pass away,

New American Standard Bible

“My brothers have acted deceitfully like a wadi,
Like the torrents of wadis which vanish,

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

My brothers are as treacherous as a wadi,
as seasonal streams that overflow

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away,

American Standard Version

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;

Amplified


“My brothers have acted deceitfully like a brook,
Like the torrents of brooks that vanish,

Bible in Basic English

My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:

Julia Smith Translation

My brethren dealt faithlessly as a torrent; as a channel of torrents they shall pass away;

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

My companions are treacherous like a torrent-bed; like a streambed of wadis they flow away,

Modern King James verseion

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a torrent; they pass away as the streams of torrents,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Mine own brethren pass over by me, as the water brook that hastily runneth through the valleys.

NET Bible

My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.

New Heart English Bible

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

The Emphasized Bible

Mine own brethren, have proved treacherous like a torrent, like a channel of torrents which disappear:

Webster

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

World English Bible

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

Youngs Literal Translation

My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אח 
'ach 
Usage: 629

as a brook
נחלה נחלה נחל 
Nachal 
Usage: 141

and as the stream
אפיק 
'aphiyq 
Usage: 19

of brooks
נחלה נחלה נחל 
Nachal 
Usage: 141

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Job

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

14 For him that is fainting kindness is meet from his friend; or he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. 15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a stream, as the channel of streams which pass away, 16 Which are turbid by reason of the ice, in which the snow hideth itself:

Cross References

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable? It refuseth to be healed. Wilt thou be altogether unto me as a treacherous spring, as waters that fail?

Psalm 38:11

My lovers and mine associates stand aloof from my stroke; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

Psalm 41:9

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

Job 19:19

All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.

Psalm 55:12-14

For it is not an enemy that hath reproached me then could I have borne it; neither is it he that hateth me that hath magnified himself against me then would I have hidden myself from him;

Psalm 88:18

Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are darkness.

Jeremiah 9:4-5

Take ye heed every one of his friend, and confide not in any brother; for every brother only supplanteth, and every friend goeth about with slander.

Jeremiah 30:14

All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not. For I have smitten thee with the stroke of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of thine iniquity: thy sins are manifold.

Micah 7:5-6

Believe ye not in a companion, put not confidence in a familiar friend: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

John 13:18

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

John 16:32

Behold, the hour is coming, and has come, that ye shall be scattered, each to his own, and shall leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

Jude 1:12

These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together with you without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without water, carried along by the winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

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