Job 6:17

KJV

What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

— Job 6:17, King James Version
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Context

This verse from Job Chapter 6 connects to 2 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 …

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Other Translations

ASV

What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

YLT

By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.

BBE

Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

Cross References