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Job 6:17 KJV

Job · chapter 6 · verse 17

What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.Job 6:17 · King James Version

Job 6:17 in context

15My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

16Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

17What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

18The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

19The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

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Commentary

Eliphaz had been very severe in his censures of Job; and his companions, though as yet they had said little, yet had intimated their concurrence with him. Their unkindness therein poor Job here complains of, as an aggravation of his calamity and a further excuse of his desire to die;

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-21

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