Parallel Verses
World English Bible
They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.
New American Standard Bible
They came there and were confounded.
King James Version
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
Holman Bible
When they arrive there, they are frustrated.
International Standard Version
For all their expectations, they are doomed to disappointment; even though they have come and searched this far.
A Conservative Version
They were put to shame because they had hoped. They came there, and were confounded.
American Standard Version
They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came thither, and were confounded.
Amplified
“They were put to shame and disappointed because they had trusted [that they would find water];
They came there and were ashamed.
Bible in Basic English
They were put to shame because of their hope; they came and their hope was gone.
Darby Translation
They are ashamed at their hope; they come thither, and are confounded.
Julia Smith Translation
They were ashamed for trusting; they came even to it, they will be put to shame.
King James 2000
They were disappointed because they had confidence; they came there, and were confused.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They are disappointed, because they trusted; they came {here} and they are confounded.
Modern King James verseion
They were ashamed because they had hoped; they came there and were ashamed.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Confounded are they that put any confidence in them: For when they came to obtain the things that they looked for, they were brought to confusion.
NET Bible
They were distressed, because each one had been so confident; they arrived there, but were disappointed.
New Heart English Bible
They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.
The Emphasized Bible
They are ashamed that they had trusted, They have come up to one of them, and are confounded.
Webster
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
Youngs Literal Translation
They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come unto it and are confounded.
Interlinear
Buwsh
Batach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
19 The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them. 20 They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded. 21 For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.
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Jeremiah 14:3-4
Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.
Jeremiah 17:13
Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.
Romans 5:5
and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Romans 9:33
even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed."