Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
What time they grow warm, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
New American Standard Bible
When it is hot, they vanish from their place.
King James Version
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Holman Bible
they disappear from their channels in hot weather.
International Standard Version
But then the snow melts, and they disappear; when warmed, they evaporate from their stream beds.
American Standard Version
What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Amplified
When it is warm, they are silent and cease to flow;
When it is hot, they vanish from their place.
Bible in Basic English
Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.
Darby Translation
At the time they diminish, they are dried up; when heat affecteth them, they vanish from their place:
Julia Smith Translation
In the time they will flow of they became extinct: in its heat they were extinguished from their place.
King James 2000
At what time they become warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they vanish out of their place.
Lexham Expanded Bible
In time they dry up, they disappear; when it [is] hot, they vanish from their place.
Modern King James verseion
When they become warm, they go away; when it is hot, they vanish out of their place.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When their time cometh, they shall be destroyed and perish: and when they be set on fire, they shall be removed out of their place,
NET Bible
When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.
New Heart English Bible
In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
The Emphasized Bible
By the time they begin to thaw, they are dried up, as soon as it is warm, they have vanished out of their place.
Webster
In the time when they become warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
World English Bible
In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Youngs Literal Translation
By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:17
Images Job 6:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
16 which are black because of the ice, in which the snow hides itself. 17 What time they grow warm, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. 18 The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
1 Kings 17:1
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Job 24:19
Drought and heat consume the snow waters, [and] Sheol [those who] have sinned.