For thou shalt forget thy misery; Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away:
Job 6:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, And as the stream of brooks they pass away; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [You] my brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away, American Standard Version (1901) My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away; Common English Bible My companions are treacherous like a stream in the desert, like channels that overrun their streambeds, Catholic Public Domain Version My brethren have disregarded me, like a torrent that passes swiftly through the steep valleys. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version My brethren have passed by me, as the torrent that passeth swiftly in the valleys. |
For thou shalt forget thy misery; Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away:
He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
All my inward friends abhor me: And they whom I loved are turned against me.
Which are black by reason of the ice, And wherein the snow hideth itself:
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, Hath lifted up his heel against me.
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness.
Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble Is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; even they have cried aloud after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?
All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one; for the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased.
behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy familiar friends have set thee on, and have prevailed over thee: now that thy feet are sunk in the mire: they are turned away back.
I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth my bread lifted up his heel against me.
Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;