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Job 6:18 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish. "
Job 6:18
Verse in Context
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Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
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Job 6:1
"But Job answered and said,"
Job 6:2
"Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!"
Job 6:3
"For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up."
Job 6:4
"For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array"
Job 6:5
"Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?"
Job 6:5
"Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?"
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