The Unreliability of His Friends

Job 6:14-23

"A friend should be kind to an unhappy man, even to one who abandons Shaddai.

But my brothers are as deceptive as vadis, as vadi streams that soon run dry;

they may turn dark with ice and be hidden by piled-up snow;

but as the weather warms up, they vanish; when it's hot, they disappear.

Their courses turn this way and that; they go up into the confusing waste and are lost.

The caravans from Tema look for them, the travelers from Sh'va hope to find them;

but they are disappointed, because they were confident; on arrival there, they are frustrated.

"For now, you have become like that -just seeing my calamity makes you afraid.

Did I say to you, 'Give me something,'or, 'From your wealth, offer a bribe on my behalf,'

or, 'Save me from the enemy's grip,'or, 'Redeem me from the clutches of oppressors'?