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Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just

Job 6:17

In 11 translations

BSB
but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.
KJV
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.vanish: Heb. are cut offwhen…: Heb. in the heat thereofconsumed: Heb. extinguished
WEB
In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
ASV
What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
LSV
By the time they are warm they have been cut off, || By its being hot they have been || Extinguished from their place.
YLT
By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.
DBY
At the time they diminish, they are dried up; when heat affecteth them, they vanish from their place:
DRC
At the time when they shall be scattered they shall perish: and after it groweth hot they shall be melted out of their place.
GNV
But in time they are dryed vp with heate and are consumed: and when it is hote they faile out of their places,
JPS
What time they wax warm, they vanish, when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
LXXE
When it has melted at the approach of heat, it is not known what it was.

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Original-language editions

WLC
בְּ֭עֵת יְזֹרְב֣וּ נִצְמָ֑תוּ בְּ֝חֻמּ֗וֹ נִדְעֲכ֥וּ מִמְּקוֹמָֽם׃
LXX-Br
Καθὼς τακεῖσα θέρμης γενομένης, οὐκ ἐπεγνώσθη ὅπερ ἦν,

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Kings 17:1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
  • Job 24:19As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

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