Parallel Verses
NET Bible
For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
Holman Bible
When you see something dreadful, you are afraid.
International Standard Version
"And now you're all just like them, aren't you? You see my terror and are terrified.
A Conservative Version
For now ye are nothing. Ye see a terror, and are afraid.
American Standard Version
For now ye are nothing; Ye see a terror, and are afraid.
Amplified
“Indeed, you have now become like a dried-up stream,
You see a terror [believing me to be a victim of the wrath of God] and are afraid [to be compassionate].
Bible in Basic English
So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear.
Darby Translation
So now ye are nothing; ye see a terrible object and are afraid.
Julia Smith Translation
For now ye were not: ye shall see the terror and be afraid.
King James 2000
For now you are nothing; you see my terror, and are afraid.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"For now you have become {such}; you see terrors, and you fear.
Modern King James verseion
Surely now you are like them; you see my casting down, and are afraid.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Even so are ye also come unto me: but now that ye see my misery, ye are afraid.
New Heart English Bible
For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.
The Emphasized Bible
For, now, ye have come to him, ye see something fearful, and fear.
Webster
For now ye are nothing: ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
World English Bible
For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.
Youngs Literal Translation
Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
20 They were distressed, because each one had been so confident; they arrived there, but were disappointed. 21 For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid. 22 "Have I ever said, 'Give me something, and from your fortune make gifts in my favor'?
Cross References
Psalm 38:11
Because of my condition, even my friends and acquaintances keep their distance; my neighbors stand far away.
Job 2:11-13
When Job's three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country -- Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.
Job 6:15
My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.
Job 13:4
But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians!
Psalm 62:9
Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.
Proverbs 19:7
All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him -- he pursues them with words, but they do not respond.
Isaiah 2:22
Stop trusting in human beings, whose life's breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?
Jeremiah 17:5-6
The Lord says, "I will put a curse on people who trust in mere human beings, who depend on mere flesh and blood for their strength, and whose hearts have turned away from the Lord.
Jeremiah 51:9
Foreigners living there will say, 'We tried to heal her, but she could not be healed. Let's leave Babylonia and each go back to his own country. For judgment on her will be vast in its proportions. It will be like it is piled up to heaven, stacked up into the clouds.'
Matthew 26:31
Then Jesus said to them, "This night you will all fall away because of me, for it is written: 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'
Matthew 26:56
But this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him and fled.
2 Timothy 4:16
At my first defense no one appeared in my support; instead they all deserted me -- may they not be held accountable for it.
Revelation 18:9-10
Then the kings of the earth who committed immoral acts with her and lived in sensual luxury with her will weep and wail for her when they see the smoke from the fire that burns her up.
Revelation 18:17-18
because in a single hour such great wealth has been destroyed!" And every ship's captain, and all who sail along the coast -- seamen, and all who make their living from the sea, stood a long way off