17but that cease to flow in the dry season, and in the heat vanish from their channels.


In Context

14 "A despairing man should have the devotion of his friends, even though he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

15 But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow

16 when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow,

17 but that cease to flow in the dry season, and in the heat vanish from their channels.

18 Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go up into the wasteland and perish.

19 The caravans of Tema look for water, the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.

Job 6:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:17What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:17At the time when they shall be scattered they shall perish: and after it groweth hot they shall be melted out of their place.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:17What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:17At the time they diminish, they are dried up; when heat affecteth them, they vanish from their place:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:17What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:17In the time when they become warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:17In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:17By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:17What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.