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Job 6:18
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Caravans turn away from their routes,go up into the desert, and perish.
The caravans that travel beside them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
The caravans turn aside from their course; they go up into the waste and perish.
Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.
"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.]
"The paths of their course wind along, They go up into wasteland and perish.
The caravans that travel beside them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.
Or they depart from their way and course, yea, they vanish and perish.
The paths of their course wind along;They go up into a formless place and perish.
Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.
I am like a caravan, lost in the desert while searching for water.
Their courses turn this way and that; they go up into the confusing waste and are lost.
They wind about in the paths of their course, they go off into the waste and perish.
It twists and turns along the way and then disappears into the desert.
The paths of their ways are winding; they go astray from their course and perish.
Caravans get lost looking for water; they wander and die in the desert.
The paths of their way wind around; they go up into the wasteland, and they perish.
The paths of their way bend; they go to nothing and are lost.
for the pathes yt they go in, are croked: they haist after vayne thinges, and shal perish.
The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.
The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.
They depart from the course of their wonted chanell to other places, they runne in vayne and perishe.
The paths of their way do wind, they go up into the waste, and are lost.
The pathes of their way are turned aside; they goe to nothing, and perish.
Thus I also have been deserted of all; and I am ruined, and become an outcast.
The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside; they go up into the waste, and perish.
The pathis of her steppis ben wlappid; thei schulen go in veyn, and schulen perische.
The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
The paths of their way turn aside, They go nowhere and perish.
The caravans turn aside to be refreshed, but there is nothing to drink, so they die.
The people on their camels turn away from them. They go into the waste places and die.
The caravans turn aside from their course; they go up into the waste, and perish.
Caravans turn aside by their course, they go up into a waste, and are lost:
The paths of their steps are entangled: they shall walk in vain, and shall perish.
The caravans turn aside from their course; they go up into the waste, and perish.
Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.
"The paths of their course wind along, They go up into nothing and perish.
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Reciprocal: Jeremiah 10:24 - lest
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This is the family history of Noah. Noah was a good man, the most innocent man of his time, and he walked with God.
Make an opening around the top of the boat that is eighteen inches high from the edge of the roof down. Put a door in the side of the boat. Make an upper, middle, and lower deck in it.
Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are the best person among the people of this time, so you and your family can go into the boat.
He and his wife and his sons and their wives went into the boat to escape the waters of the flood.
On that same day Noah and his wife, his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives went into the boat.
"I am making my agreement with you: I will make you the father of many nations.
And I will make an agreement between me and you and all your descendants from now on: I will be your God and the God of all your descendants.
But I will make my agreement with Isaac, the son whom Sarah will have at this same time next year."
My people, go into your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide in your rooms for a short time until God's anger is finished.
It was by faith that Noah heard God's warnings about things he could not yet see. He obeyed God and built a large boat to save his family. By his faith, Noah showed that the world was wrong, and he became one of those who are made right with God through faith.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The paths of their way are turned aside,.... That is, the waters, when melted by the heat of the sun, and the warmth of the weather, run, some one way, and some another in little streams and windings, till they are quite lost and the tracks of them are no more to be seen; denoting that all appearance of friendship was quite gone, and no traces of it to be found:
they go to nothing, and perish: some of them are lost in little meanders and windings about, and others are exhaled by the heat of the sun, and go into "Tohu", as the word is, into empty air; so vain and empty, and perishing, were all the comforts he hoped for from his friends; though some understand this of the paths of travellers in the deserts being covered in the sand, and not to be seen and found; of which see Pliny z.
z Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 29.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The paths of their way are turned aside - Noyes renders this, “The caravans turn aside to them on their way.” Good, “The outlets of their channel wind about.” Rosenmuller, “The bands of travelers direct their journey to them.” Jerome, “Involved are the paths of their steps.” According to the interpretation of Rosenmuller, Noyes, Umbreit, and others, it means that the caravans on their journey turn aside from their regular way in order to find water there; and that in doing it they go up into a desert and perish. According to the other interpretation, it means that the channels of the stream wind along until they diminish and come to nothing. This latter I take to be the true sense of the passage, as it is undoubtedly the most poetical. It is a representation of the stream winding along in its channels, or making new channels as it flows from the mountain, until it diminishes by evaporation, and finally comes to nothing.
They go to nothing - Noyes renders this very singularly, “into the desert,” - meaning that the caravans, when they suppose they are going to a place of refreshment, actually go to a desert, and thus perish. The word used here, however תהוּ tôhû, does not occur in the sense of a desert elsewhere in the Scriptures. It denotes nothingness, emptiness, vanity (see Genesis 1:2), and very appropriately expresses the nothingness into which a stream vanishes when it is dried up or lost in the sand. The sense is, that those streams wander along until they become smaller and smaller, and then wholly disappear. They deceive the traveler who hoped to find refreshment there. Streams depending on snows and storms, and having no permanent fountains, cannot be confided in. Pretended friends are like them. In times of prosperity they are full of professions, and their aid is proffered to us. But we go to them when we need their assistance, when we are like the weary and thirsty traveler, and they disappear like deceitful streams in the sands of the desert.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 6:18. The paths of their way — They sometimes forsake their ancient channels, which is a frequent case with the river Ganges; and growing smaller and smaller from being divided into numerous streams, they go to nothing and perish - are at last utterly lost in the sands.
