15 My brethren have deceived me as a [a]brook, and as the rising of the rivers they pass away.

16 Which are blackish with ice, and wherein the snow is hid.

17 But in time they are dried up with heat and are consumed: and when it is hot they fail out of their places,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:15 He compareth those friends which comfort us not in misery, to a brook, which in summer, when we need water, is dry, in winter is hard frozen, and in the time of rain, when we have no need, overfloweth with water.

15 But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams,(A)
    as the streams that overflow
16 when darkened by thawing ice
    and swollen with melting snow,(B)
17 but that stop flowing in the dry season,
    and in the heat(C) vanish from their channels.

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