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
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 …
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are …
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.