Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Mine own brethren pass over by me, as the water brook that hastily runneth through the valleys.
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;
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,
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 like as if one withdrew a good deed from his friend, and forsook the fear of the Almighty God? 15 Mine own brethren pass over by me, as the water brook that hastily runneth through the valleys. 16 But they that fear the hoarfrost, the snow shall fall upon them.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 15:18
Shall my heaviness endure forever? Are my plagues then so great, that they may never be healed? Wilt thou be as a water that faileth, and cannot continue?"
Psalm 38:11
My lovers and friends stand looking upon my trouble, and my kinsmen are gone afar off.
Psalm 41:9
Yea, even mine own familiar friend, whom I trusted, who did also eat my bread, hath lift up his heel against me.
Job 19:19
All such as were my most familiars, abhor me: And they whom I loved best, are turned against me.
Psalm 55:12-14
If it were mine enemy that reviled me, I could bear it: or if one that ought me evil will did threaten me, I would hide myself from him.
Psalm 88:18
My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me, and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight.
Jeremiah 9:4-5
Yea, one must keep himself from another; no man may safely trust his own brother. For one brother undermineth another, and one neighbour begileth another.
Jeremiah 30:14
All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and care nothing for thee. For I have given thee a cruel stroke, and chastened thee roughly: and that for the multitude of thy misdeeds, for thy sins have had the overhand.
Micah 7:5-6
Let no man believe his friend, nor put his confidence in a prince. Keep the door of thy mouth, from her that lieth in thy bosom:
John 13:18
"I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: But that the scripture be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
John 16:32
Behold, the hour draweth nigh, and is already come, that ye shall be scattered every man his ways, and shall leave me alone. And yet am I not alone. For the father is with me.
Jude 1:12
These are spots which of your kindness feast together, without fear, feeding themselves. Clouds they are without water, carried about of winds: and trees without fruit at gathering time, twice dead, and plucked up by the roots.