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


In Context

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.

20 They are distressed, because they had been confident; they arrive there, only to be disappointed.

Job 6:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:18The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:18The paths of their steps are entangled: they shall walk in vain, and shall perish.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:18The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:18They wind about in the paths of their course, they go off into the waste and perish.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:18The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside; they go up into the waste, and perish.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:18The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:18The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:18Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:18The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.