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Complete Jewish Bible

Job 6:20

but they are disappointed, because they were confident; on arrival there, they are frustrated.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - River;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Contrite;   Greatness of God;   Sanctification;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hope;   Job;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Commerce;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Confound;   Job, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They are ashamed because they had been confident of finding water.When they arrive there, they are disappointed.
Hebrew Names Version
They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came there, and were confounded.
King James Version
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
English Standard Version
They are ashamed because they were confident; they come there and are disappointed.
New Century Version
They are upset because they had been sure; when they arrive, they are disappointed.
New English Translation
They were distressed, because each one had been so confident; they arrived there, but were disappointed.
Amplified Bible
"They were put to shame and disappointed because they had trusted [that they would find water]; They came there and were ashamed.
New American Standard Bible
"They were put to shame, for they had trusted, They came there and were humiliated.
World English Bible
They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came there, and were confounded.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But they were confounded: when they hoped, they came thither and were ashamed.
Legacy Standard Bible
They were ashamed for they had trusted;They came there and were humiliated.
Berean Standard Bible
They are confounded because they had hoped; their arrival brings disappointment.
Contemporary English Version
thought they would find water. But they were disappointed,
Darby Translation
They are ashamed at their hope; they come thither, and are confounded.
Easy-to-Read Version
They are sure they can find water, but they will be disappointed.
George Lamsa Translation
They are ashamed in what they had hoped; they came there, and were confounded.
Good News Translation
but their hope dies beside dry streams.
Lexham English Bible
They are disappointed, because they trusted; they came here and they are confounded.
Literal Translation
they were ashamed because they had hoped; they came there and were ashamed.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Confounded are they, that put eny cofidence in them: For whe they came to opteyne the thynges that they loked for, they were brought to confucion.
American Standard Version
They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came thither, and were confounded.
Bible in Basic English
They were put to shame because of their hope; they came and their hope was gone.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But they were confounded in their hope, they came thyther and were ashamed.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
They were ashamed because they had hoped; they came thither, and were confounded.
King James Version (1611)
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They too that trust in cities and riches shall come to shame.
English Revised Version
They were ashamed because they had hoped; they came thither, and were confounded.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei ben schent, for Y hopide; and thei camen `til to me, and thei ben hilid with schame.
Update Bible Version
They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came there, and were confounded.
Webster's Bible Translation
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
New King James Version
They are disappointed because they were confident; They come there and are confused.
New Living Translation
They count on it but are disappointed. When they arrive, their hopes are dashed.
New Life Bible
They were troubled for they had trusted. They came there and their hope goes.
New Revised Standard
They are disappointed because they were confident; they come there and are confounded.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They are ashamed that they had trusted, They have come up to one of them, and are confounded.
Douay-Rheims Bible
They arc confounded, because I have hoped: they are come also even unto me, and are covered with shame.
Revised Standard Version
They are disappointed because they were confident; they come thither and are confounded.
Young's Literal Translation
They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come unto it and are confounded.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They were disappointed for they had trusted, They came there and were confounded.

Contextual Overview

14 "A friend should be kind to an unhappy man, even to one who abandons Shaddai. 15 But my brothers are as deceptive as vadis, as vadi streams that soon run dry; 16 they may turn dark with ice and be hidden by piled-up snow; 17 but as the weather warms up, they vanish; when it's hot, they disappear. 18 Their courses turn this way and that; they go up into the confusing waste and are lost. 19 The caravans from Tema look for them, the travelers from Sh'va hope to find them; 20 but they are disappointed, because they were confident; on arrival there, they are frustrated. 21 "For now, you have become like that — just seeing my calamity makes you afraid.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

confounded: Jeremiah 14:3, Jeremiah 14:4, Jeremiah 17:13, Romans 5:5, Romans 9:33

Reciprocal: Isaiah 20:6 - whither Isaiah 21:15 - from the swords Jeremiah 49:20 - Teman

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them: God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air and every living creature that crawls on the earth."
Genesis 2:19
So from the ground Adonai , God, formed every wild animal and every bird that flies in the air, and he brought them to the person to see what he would call them. Whatever the person would call each living creature, that was to be its name.
Genesis 6:8
But Noach found grace in the sight of Adonai . Haftarah B'resheet: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 42:5–43:10 (A); 42:5–21 (S) B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah B'resheet: Mattityahu (Matthew) 1:1–17; 19:3–9; Mark 10:1–12; Luke 3:23–38; Yochanan (John) 1:1–18; 1 Corinthians 6:15–20; 15:35–58; Romans 5:12–21; Ephesians 5:21–32; Colossians 1:14–17; 1 Timothy 2:11–15; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 1:1–3; 3:7–4:11; 11:1–7; 2 Kefa (2 Peter) 3:3–14; Revelation 21:1–5; 22:1–5 Here is the history of Noach. In his generation, Noach was a man righteous and wholehearted; Noach walked with God. Noach fathered three sons, Shem, Ham and Yefet. The earth was corrupt before God, the earth was filled with violence. God saw the earth, and, yes, it was corrupt; for all living beings had corrupted their ways on the earth. God said to Noach, "The end of all living beings has come before me, for because of them the earth is filled with violence. I will destroy them along with the earth. Make yourself an ark of gofer-wood; you are to make the ark with rooms and cover it with pitch both outside and inside. Here is how you are to build it: the length of the ark is to be 450 feet, its width seventy-five feet and its height forty-five feet. You are to make an opening for daylight in the ark eighteen inches below its roof. Put a door in its side; and build it with lower, second and third decks. "Then I myself will bring the flood of water over the earth to destroy from under heaven every living thing that breathes; everything on earth will be destroyed. But I will establish my covenant with you; you will come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife and your sons' wives with you. "From everything living, from each kind of living being, you are to bring two into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they are to be male and female. Of each kind of bird, each kind of livestock, and each kind of animal creeping on the ground, two are to come to you, so that they can be kept alive. Also take from all the kinds of food that are eaten, and collect it for yourself; it is to be food for you and for them." This is what Noach did; he did all that God ordered him to do.
Genesis 6:11
The earth was corrupt before God, the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 6:12
God saw the earth, and, yes, it was corrupt; for all living beings had corrupted their ways on the earth.
Genesis 6:16
You are to make an opening for daylight in the ark eighteen inches below its roof. Put a door in its side; and build it with lower, second and third decks.
Genesis 6:20
Of each kind of bird, each kind of livestock, and each kind of animal creeping on the ground, two are to come to you, so that they can be kept alive.
John 5:40
but you won't come to me in order to have life!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they were confounded because they had hoped,.... When they came to the places where they hoped to find water, finding none were ashamed of their vain hope, and reflected upon themselves for being so foolish as to raise their expectations upon such a groundless surmise:

they came thither, and were ashamed; which is the same thing expressed in different words; and aptly enough describes Job's disappointment in not meeting with that relief and comfort he expected from his friends, to whom he makes application of all this in the following words.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They were confounded because they had hoped - The caravans of Tema and Sheba. The word “confounded” here means ashamed. It represents the state of feeling which one has who has met with disappointment. He is perplexed, distressed, and ashamed that he had entertained so confident hope; see the notes at Isaiah 30:5. They were downcast and sad that the waters had failed, and they looked on one another with confusion and dismay. There are few images more poetic than this, and nothing that would more strikingly exhibit the disappointment of Job, that he had looked for consolation from his friends, and had not found it. He was down-cast, distressed, and disheartened, like the travelers of Tema and of Sheba, because they had nothing to offer to console him; because he had waited for them to sustain him in his afflictions, and had been wholly disappointed.


 
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