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Job 6:17
Job 6:17 is verse 17 of Job chapter 6, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.
King James Version
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
World English Bible
In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
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Job 6:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,
16 darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow,
17 but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.
18 Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.
19 The caravans of Tema look for water; the travelers of Sheba hope to find it.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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!”