Job 6:17

Amplified Bible

When it is warm, they are silent and cease to flow; When it is hot, they vanish from their place.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The wadis evaporate in warm weather;they disappear from their channels in hot weather.

Hebrew Names Version
In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

King James Version
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

English Standard Version
When they melt, they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

New Century Version
But they stop flowing in the dry season; they disappear when it is hot.

New English Translation
When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

New American Standard Bible
"When they dry up, they vanish; When it is hot, they disappear from their place.

World English Bible
In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But in time they are dryed vp with heate and are consumed: and when it is hote they faile out of their places,

Legacy Standard Bible
When they become waterless, they are silent;When it is hot, they vanish from their place.

Berean Standard Bible
but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.

Contemporary English Version
then suddenly disappear in the summer heat.

Complete Jewish Bible
but as the weather warms up, they vanish; when it's hot, they disappear.

Darby Translation
At the time they diminish, they are dried up; when heat affecteth them, they vanish from their place:

Easy-to-Read Version
But when the weather is hot and dry, the water stops flowing, and the stream disappears.

George Lamsa Translation
When the sun shines over them, they melt; when it is hot, they melt and disappear from their place.

Good News Translation
but in the heat they disappear, and the stream beds lie bare and dry.

Lexham English Bible
In time they dry up, they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

Literal Translation
At the time they are warmed, they are cut off; when it is hot they dry up.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When their tyme cometh, they shalbe destroyed and perishe: and when they be set on fyre, they shalbe remoued out of their place,

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

Bible in Basic English
Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Which when they haue passed by do vanishe, and when the heate commeth they fayle out of their place.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
What time they wax warm, they vanish, when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

King James Version (1611)
What time they waxe warme, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
When it has melted at the approach of heat, it is not known what it was.

English Revised Version
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In the tyme wherynne thei ben scaterid, thei schulen perische; and as thei ben hoote, thei schulen be vnknyt fro her place.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
In the time when they become warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

New King James Version
When it is warm, they cease to flow; When it is hot, they vanish from their place.

New Living Translation
But when the hot weather arrives, the water disappears. The brook vanishes in the heat.

New Life Bible
When they have no water, there is no noise. When it is hot, they are not there.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
By the time they begin to thaw, they are dried up, as soon as it is warm, they have vanished out of their place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
At the time when they shall be scattered they shall perish: and after it groweth hot, they shall be melted out of their place.

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

Young's Literal Translation
By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"When they become waterless, they are silent, When it is hot, they vanish from their place.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴"For the despairing man there should be kindness from his friend; So that he does not abandon (turn away from) the fear of the Almighty. ¹⁵"My brothers have acted deceitfully like a brook, Like the torrents of brooks that vanish, ¹⁶Which are dull and dirty because of ice, And into which the snow melts and hides itself; ¹⁷When it is warm, they are silent and cease to flow; When it is hot, they vanish from their place.¹⁸"The paths of their course wind along, They go up into nothing and perish. [Your counsel is as helpful to me as a dry streambed in the heat of summer.] ¹⁹"The caravans of Tema looked [for water], The caravans of Sheba waited for them [in vain]. ²⁰"They were put to shame and disappointed because they had trusted [that they would find water]; They came there and were ashamed. ²¹"Indeed, you have now become like a dried-up stream, You see a terror [believing me to be a victim of the wrath of God] and are afraid [to be compassionate].

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

vanish: Heb. are cut off

when it is hot they are consumed: Heb. in the heat thereof they are extinguished. 1 Kings 17:1

Reciprocal: Job 37:17 - he Psalms 147:18 - General Daniel 2:35 - no place

Cross-References

Genesis 2:7
then the LORD God formed [that is, created the body of] man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being [an individual complete in body and spirit].

Genesis 6:3
Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive and remain with man forever, because he is indeed flesh [sinful, corrupt—given over to sensual appetites]; nevertheless his days shall yet be a hundred and twenty years."

Genesis 6:4
There were Nephilim (men of stature, notorious men) on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God lived with the daughters of men, and they gave birth to their children. These were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown (great reputation, fame).

Genesis 6:7
So the LORD said, "I will destroy (annihilate) mankind whom I have created from the surface of the earth—not only man, but the animals and the crawling things and the birds of the air—because it [deeply] grieves Me [to see mankind's sin] and I regret that I have made them."

Genesis 6:12
God looked on the earth and saw how debased and degenerate it was, for all humanity had corrupted their way on the earth and lost their true direction.

Genesis 6:13
God said to Noah, "I intend to make an end of all that lives, for through men the land is filled with violence; and behold, I am about to destroy them together with the land.

Genesis 6:14
"Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make in it rooms (stalls, pens, coops, nests, cages, compartments) and coat it inside and out with pitch (bitumen).

Genesis 6:20
"Of fowls and birds according to their kind, of animals according to their kind, of every crawling thing of the ground according to its kind—two of every kind shall come to you to keep them alive.

Genesis 6:21
"Also take with you every kind of food that is edible, and you shall collect and store it; and it shall be food for you and for them."

Genesis 6:22
So Noah did this; according to all that God commanded him, that is what he did.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

What time they wax warm they vanish,.... The ice and the snow, which, when the weather becomes warm, they melt away and disappear; and in like manner, he suggests his friends ceased to be friends to him in a time of adversity; the sun of affliction having looked upon him, they deserted him, at least did not administer comfort to him:

when it is hot they are consumed out of their place; when it is hot weather, and the sun has great strength then the waters, which swelled through the floods and fall of rain and snow, and which when frozen, looked black and big as if they had great depth in them, were quickly dried up, and no more to be seen in the place where they were; which still expresses the short duration of friendship among men, which Job had a sorrowful experience of.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

What time - In the time; or after a time.

They wax warm - Gesenius renders this word (יזרבו y^ezor^ebû) when they became narrow, and this version has been adopted by Noyes. The word occurs nowhere else. Taylor (Concord.) renders it, “to be dissolved by the heat of the sun.” Jerome, fuerint dissipati - “in the time in which they are scattered.” The Septuagint, τακεῖσα Θέρμης γενομένης takeisa thermēs genomenēs - “melting at the approach of heat.” The Chaldee, “In the time in which the generation of the deluge sinned, they were scattered.” Castell says that the word זרב zârab in the Piel, as the word in Chaldee (זרב z^erab) means “to flow”; and also that it has the same signification as צרב tsârab, to become warm. In Syriac the word means to be straitened, bound, confined. On the whole, however, the connection seems to require us to understand it as it is rendered in our common translation, as meaning, that when they are exposed to the rays of a burning sun, they evaporate. They pour down from the mountains in torrents, but when they flow into burning sands, or become exposed to the intense action of the sun, they are dried up, and disappear.

They vanish - Margin, “are cut off.” That is, they wander off into the sands of the desert until they are finally lost.

When it is hot - Margin, “in the heat thereof.” When the summer comes, or when the rays of the sun are poured down upon them.

They are consumed - Margin, “extinguished.” They are dried up, and furnish no water for the caravan.