Job 6:15
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 6 connects to 10 cross-references. Job responds to Eliphaz with a passionate defense of his anguish, comparing his grief to sand on seashores. He accuses his friends of being like a wadi that disappoints travelers in the dry season, pleading for honesty rather than empty …
Other Translations
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;
My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.
My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:
Cross References
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel …
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that …
We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly …
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to …
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me …
All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an …