Job 6:21
For now you are of no help; you see terror, and you are afraid.
BSB
ASV
For now ye are nothing; Ye see a terror, and are afraid.
KJV
For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
For now ye are come, to see my stroke, and are afraid. As though he said in plain words, 'I feared God then, when, buoyed up with prosperity, I felt no hurts of the scourge. But ye, who fear not God from love, dread Him from the stroke of the rod alone.
As the dried-up brook is to the caravan, so are ye to me, namely, a nothing; ye might as well not be in existence [UMBREIT]. The Margin "like to them," or "to it" (namely, the waters of the brook), is not so good a reading. ye see, and are afraid--Ye are struck aghast at the sight of my misery, and ye lose presence of mind.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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2 Timothy 4:16At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.
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Falling on his knees, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
“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…
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Psalms 38:11My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
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But all those who knew Jesus, including the women who had followed Him from Galilee, stood at a distance watching these things.
Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends— they flee when they see me on the street.
He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
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Jeremiah 51:9“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
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Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who wields the sickle at harvest time. In the face of the oppressor’s sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to…
Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.
For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.