For you will forget your suffering, recalling it only as water that has flowed by.
Job 6:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised My brothers are as treacherous as a wadi, as seasonal streams that overflow Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 you will forget your suffering, recalling it only as water that has flowed by.
He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
All of my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
Trusting an unreliable person in a difficult time is like a rotten tooth or a faltering foot.
Even your brothers #– #your own father’s family – even they were treacherous to you; even they have cried out loudly after you. Do not have confidence in them, though they speak well of you.
Why has my pain become unending, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You truly have become like a mirage to me – water that is not reliable.
All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer look for you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your enormous guilt and your innumerable sins.
“All the women who remain in the palace of Judah’s king will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon and will say to you, ‘Your trusted friends misled you and overcame you. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.’
‘I’m not speaking about all of you; I know those I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: The one who eats my bread has raised his heel against me. ,
Indeed, an hour is coming, and has come, when each of you will be scattered to his own home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
These people are dangerous reefs at your love feasts as they eat with you without reverence. They are shepherds who only look after themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn #– #fruitless, twice dead and uprooted.