Job 6:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ They are confounded, because I have hoped: they are come also even unto me, and are covered with shame.

Job 6:20 Cross References

Job 13:4

But ye are forgers of lies, Ye are all physicians of no value.

Job 19:13

He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

Proverbs 25:19

Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble Is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

Jeremiah 15:18

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?

Jeremiah 17:13

O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed; they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

Romans 5:5

and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Ghost which was given unto us.

Romans 9:33

even as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence: And he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame.