Parallel Verses
King James 2000
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks that pass away;
New American Standard Bible
Like the torrents of
King James Version
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
Holman Bible
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:
Darby Translation
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a stream, as the channel of streams which pass away,
Julia Smith Translation
My brethren dealt faithlessly as a torrent; as a channel of torrents they shall 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
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shown from his friend; even though he forsakes the fear of the Almighty. 15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks that pass away; 16 Which are black by reason of the ice, and in which the snow is hid:
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 15:18
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?
Psalm 38:11
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Psalm 41:9
Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
Job 19:19
All my close friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved have turned against me.
Psalm 55:12-14
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:
Psalm 88:18
Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.
Jeremiah 9:4-5
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.
Jeremiah 30:14
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.
Micah 7:5-6
Trust not in a friend, put not confidence in a companion: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom.
John 13:18
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.
John 16:32
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.
Jude 1:12
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;