Job 6:17
New International Version
but that stop flowing in the dry season, and in the heat vanish from their channels.

New Living Translation
But when the hot weather arrives, the water disappears. The brook vanishes in the heat.

English Standard Version
When they melt, they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

Berean Standard Bible
but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.

King James Bible
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

New King James Version
When it is warm, they cease to flow; When it is hot, they vanish from their place.

New American Standard Bible
“When they dry up, they vanish; When it is hot, they disappear from their place.

NASB 1995
“When they become waterless, they are silent, When it is hot, they vanish from their place.

NASB 1977
“When they become waterless, they are silent, When it is hot, they vanish from their place.

Legacy Standard Bible
When they become waterless, they are silent; When it is hot, they vanish from their place.

Amplified Bible
When it is warm, they are silent and cease to flow; When it is hot, they vanish from their place.

Christian Standard Bible
The wadis evaporate in warm weather; they disappear from their channels in hot weather.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The wadis evaporate in warm weather; they disappear from their channels in hot weather.

American Standard Version
What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And in an hour that shines on them they melt, and by their heat they melt from their place

Brenton Septuagint Translation
When it has melted at the approach of heat, it is not known what it was.

Contemporary English Version
then suddenly disappear in the summer heat.

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.

English Revised Version
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They vanish during a scorching summer. In the heat their riverbeds dry up.

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

International Standard Version
But then the snow melts, and they disappear; when warmed, they evaporate from their stream beds.

JPS Tanakh 1917
What time they wax warm, they vanish, When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

Literal Standard Version
By the time they are warm they have been cut off, | By its being hot they have been | Extinguished from their place.

Majority Standard Bible
but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.

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

NET Bible
When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

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

New Heart English Bible
In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

Webster's Bible Translation
In the time when they become warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

World English Bible
In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

Young's Literal Translation
By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.

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Context
Job Replies: My Complaint is Just
16darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow, 17but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat. 18Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.…

Cross References
Job 6:16
darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow,

Job 6:18
Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.

Job 24:19
As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.


Treasury of Scripture

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

vanish.

1 Kings 17:1
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

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Job 6
1. Job shows that his complaints are not causeless.
8. He wishes for death, wherein he is assured of comfort.
14. He reproves his friends of unkindness.














Verse 17. - What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place (see the passage quoted from Dr. Geikie in the comment on ver. 15).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
but ceasing
נִצְמָ֑תוּ (niṣ·mā·ṯū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6789: To put an end to, exterminate

in the dry season
בְּ֭עֵת (bə·‘êṯ)
Preposition | Noun - common singular
Strong's 6256: Time, now, when

[and] vanishing
נִדְעֲכ֥וּ (niḏ·‘ă·ḵū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 1846: To be extinguished, to expire, be dried up

from their channels
מִמְּקוֹמָֽם׃ (mim·mə·qō·w·mām)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition

in the heat.
בְּ֝חֻמּ֗וֹ (bə·ḥum·mōw)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2527: Heat


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