Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Indeed, you have now become like a dried-up stream,
You see a terror [believing me to be a victim of the wrath of God] and are afraid [to be compassionate].
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
Holman Bible
When you see something dreadful, you are afraid.
International Standard Version
"And now you're all just like them, aren't you? You see my terror and are terrified.
A Conservative Version
For now ye are nothing. Ye see a terror, and are afraid.
American Standard Version
For now ye are nothing; Ye see a terror, and are afraid.
Bible in Basic English
So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear.
Darby Translation
So now ye are nothing; ye see a terrible object and are afraid.
Julia Smith Translation
For now ye were not: ye shall see the terror and be afraid.
King James 2000
For now you are nothing; you see my terror, and are afraid.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"For now you have become {such}; you see terrors, and you fear.
Modern King James verseion
Surely now you are like them; you see my casting down, and are afraid.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Even so are ye also come unto me: but now that ye see my misery, ye are afraid.
NET Bible
For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid.
New Heart English Bible
For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.
The Emphasized Bible
For, now, ye have come to him, ye see something fearful, and fear.
Webster
For now ye are nothing: ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
World English Bible
For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.
Youngs Literal Translation
Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
20
“They were put to shame and disappointed because they had trusted [that they would find water];
They came there and were ashamed.
“Indeed, you have now become like a dried-up stream,
You see a terror [believing me to be a victim of the wrath of God] and are afraid [to be compassionate].
“Did I ever say, ‘Give me something,’
Or, ‘Pay a bribe for me from your wealth,’
Cross References
Psalm 38:11
My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague;
And my neighbors stand far away.
Job 2:11-13
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
Job 6:15
“My brothers have acted deceitfully like a brook,
Like the torrents of brooks that vanish,
Job 13:4
“But you smear me with lies [you defame my character most untruthfully];
You are all worthless physicians and have no remedy to offer.
Psalm 62:9
Men of low degree are only a breath (emptiness), and men of [high] rank are a lie (delusion).
In the balances they go up [because they have no measurable weight or value];
They are together lighter than a breath.
Proverbs 19:7
All the brothers of a poor man hate him;
How much more do his friends abandon him!
He pursues them with words, but they are gone.
Isaiah 2:22
Stop regarding man, whose breath [of life] is in his nostrils [for so little time];
For why should he be esteemed?
Jeremiah 17:5-6
Thus says the Lord,
“Cursed is the man who trusts in and relies on mankind,
Making [weak, faulty human] flesh his strength,
And whose mind and heart turn away from the Lord.
Jeremiah 51:9
We would have healed Babylon, but she was not to be healed.
Abandon her and let each [captive] return to his own country,
For her guilt and judgment have reached to heaven
And are lifted up to the very skies.
Matthew 26:31
Then Jesus said to them,
Matthew 26:56
2 Timothy 4:16
At my first trial no one supported me [as an advocate] or stood with me, but they all deserted me. May it not be counted against them [by God].
Revelation 18:9-10
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Revelation 18:17-18
because in one hour all the vast wealth has been laid waste.’ And every ship captain or navigator, and every