Job 6:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ They are disappointed because they were confident; they come there and are confounded.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ They were confounded because they had hoped; They came thither, and were ashamed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ They were confounded because they had hoped [to find water]; they came there and were bitterly disappointed.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came thither, and were confounded.

Common English Bible

²⁰ They are ashamed that they trusted; they arrive and are dismayed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ They have been thrown into confusion, just as I had hoped; they have even come to me and are overwhelmed with shame.

Job 6:20 Cross References

Romans 9:33

as it is written, “See, I am laying in Zion a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will make them fall, and whoever trusts in him will not be put to shame.”

Romans 5:5

and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.

Jeremiah 17:13

O hope of Israel! O Lord! All who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be recorded in the underworld, for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, the Lord.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Truly, you are to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail.

Job 13:4

As for you, you whitewash with lies; all of you are worthless physicians.

Job 19:13

“He has put my family far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

Proverbs 25:19

Like a bad tooth or a lame foot is trust in a faithless person in time of trouble.