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Job 6:15

Bible in Basic English 1965

My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:

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For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:

But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.

The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

Which are dark because of the ice, and the snow falling into them;

My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.

Even my dearest friend, in whom I had faith, who took bread with me, is turned against me.

You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

Putting one's faith in a false man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a shaking foot.

For even your brothers, your father's family, even they have been untrue to you, crying loudly after you: have no faith in them, though they say fair words to you.

Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.

Your lovers have no more thought for you, they go after you no longer; for I have given you the wound of a hater, even cruel punishment;

See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Babylon's captains, and these women will say, Your nearest friends have been false to you and have got the better of you: they have made your feet go deep into the wet earth, and they are turned away back from you.

I am not talking of you all: I have knowledge of my true disciples, but things are as they are, so that the Writings may come true, The foot of him who takes bread with me is lifted up against me.

See, a time is coming, yes, it is now here, when you will go away in all directions, every man to his house, and I will be by myself: but I am not by myself, because the Father is with me.

These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,




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