Job 6:17

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.”

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BSBPD

“but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 6:17 — 2 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 1 Kings 17:1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
  2. Job 24:19As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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