Job 6 · Verse 17

Job 6:17

What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Job 6:17, King James Version

Job 6:17 in other translations

BSBbut ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.
WEBIn the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
ASVWhat time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
YLTBy the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.
DARBYAt the time they diminish, they are dried up; when heat affecteth them, they vanish from their place:
BBEUnder the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.
WebsterIn the time when they become warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

What does Job 6:17 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
17. wax warm--rather, "At the time when." ("But they soon wax") [Umbreit]. "they become narrower (flow in a narrower bed), they are silent (cease to flow noisily); in the heat (of the sun) they are consumed or vanish out of their place. First the stream flows more narrowly--then it becomes silent and still; at length every trace of water disappears by evaporation under the hot sun" [Umbreit].

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 6:14-30

In his prosperity Job formed great expectations from his friends, but now was disappointed. This he compares to the failing of brooks in summer. Those who rest their expectations on the creature, will find it fail when it should help them; whereas those who make God their confidence, have help in the time of need, He 4:16. Those who make gold their hope, sooner or later will be ashamed of it, and of their confidence…

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Job 6:17 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בְּ֭עֵתBe.'etat [the] timeH6256
יְזֹרְב֣וּye.zo.re.Vu[when] they flowH2215
נִצְמָ֑תוּnitz.Ma.tuthey are silencedH6789
בְּ֝חֻמּ֗וֹbe.chu.Moin heat itsH2552
נִדְעֲכ֥וּnid.'a.Khuthey are dried upH1846
מִמְּקוֹמָֽם\׃mi.me.ko.Mamfrom place theirH4725

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 6:17

  • Job 24:19

    Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

  • 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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
vanish. Heb. are cut off. when it is hot they are consumed.Heb. in the heat thereof they are extinguished.
1Ki 17:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 6:16

    Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

  • Job 6:17

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

  • Job 6:18

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

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Job 6:17 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Que al tiempo del calor son deshechas, y en calentándose, desaparecen de su lugar;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Au temps où ils se resserrent ils tarissent, quand la chaleur les frappe ils disparaissent de leur lieu:
German
Elberfelder 1871		Zur Zeit, wenn sie erwärmt werden, versiegen sie; wenn es heiß wird, sind sie von ihrer Stelle verschwunden.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Tempore quo fuerint dissipati, peribunt; et ut incaluerit, solventur de loco suo.