Job 6:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ In time of heat they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ What time they wax warm, they vanish: When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ When they get warm, they shrink and disappear; when it is hot, they vanish out of their place.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ but that stop flowing in dry times and vanish from their channels in heat.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ At that time, when they are scattered, they will perish, and when it becomes hot, they will be freed from their place.

Job 6:17 Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

Job 24:19

Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.

Job 6:16

which are dark with ice, and where the snow hides itself.

Job 6:18

The caravans turn aside from their course; they go up into the waste, and perish.