Job 6:17
Good News Translation
but in the heat they disappear, and the stream beds lie bare and dry.

New Revised Standard Version
In time of heat they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

Contemporary English Version
then suddenly disappear in the summer heat.

New American Bible
Yet once they flow, they cease to be; in the heat, they disappear from their place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
At the time when they shall be scattered they shall perish: and after it groweth hot, they shall be melted out of their place.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

vanish.

1 Kings 17:1 And Elias the Thesbite, of the inhabitants of Galaad, said to Achab: As the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to the words of my mouth.

Context
Job Replies: My Complaint is Just
16They that fear the hoary frost, the snow shall fall upon them. 17At the time when they shall be scattered they shall perish: and after it groweth hot, they shall be melted out of their place.18The paths of their steps are entangled: they shall walk in vain, and shall perish.…
Cross References
Job 6:16
They that fear the hoary frost, the snow shall fall upon them.

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

Job 24:19
Let him pass from the snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin even to hell.

Job 6:16
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