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16 Filled with waters made cold[a] by ice,
    they are where the snow goes to hide.
17 But then the snow melts, and they disappear;
    when warmed, they evaporate from their stream beds.[b]
18 Travelers divert[c] in their route;
    they go into a wasteland and die.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:16 Lit. dark
  2. Job 6:17 Lit. their place
  3. Job 6:18 Lit. twist

16 when darkened by thawing ice
    and swollen with melting snow,(A)
17 but that stop flowing in the dry season,
    and in the heat(B) vanish from their channels.
18 Caravans turn aside from their routes;
    they go off into the wasteland and perish.

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