Job 6:14-23

The Unreliability of His Friends

Job 6:14-23
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To a despiser of his friends is shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.
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My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.
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That are black because of ice, By them doth snow hide itself.
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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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Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.
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Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them.
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They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come unto it and are confounded.
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Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.
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Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me?
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And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, From the hand of terrible ones ransom me?
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