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Job 6:15

But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,

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ASV

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;

KJV

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

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7 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אַ֭חַי'A.chaibrothers myH251 →
בָּגְד֣וּba.ge.Duthey have acted treacherouslyH898 →
כְמוֹ־khe.mov-likeH3644 →
נָ֑חַלNa.chala wadiH5158 →
כַּאֲפִ֖יקka.'a.Fiklike a stream-bed ofH650 →
נְחָלִ֣יםne.cha.LimwadisH5158 →
יַעֲבֹֽרוּ׃ya.'a.Vo.ru[which] they pass awayH5674 →

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Psalms 38:11My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.Jeremiah 15:18Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.Jeremiah 12:6Even your brothers—your own father’s household—even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.Psalms 41:9Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.John 13:18I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: ‘The one who shares My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’Psalms 55:12–14For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.John 16:32“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.Job 19:19All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.Jeremiah 30:14All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.Psalms 88:18You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.Micah 7:5–6Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.Jeremiah 9:4–5“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.Jude 1:12These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.Job 11:16For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.Job 6:21For now you are of no help; you see terror, and you are afraid.Lamentations 1:2She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.Proverbs 19:22The desire of a man is loving devotion; better to be poor than a liar.Exodus 21:8If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who had designated her for himself, he must allow her to be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has broken faith with her.

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Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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