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6:16 They are dark <06937> because <04480> of ice <07140>; snow <07950> is piled up <05956> over <05921> them. 6:17 When <06256> they are scorched <02215>, they dry up <06789>, when it is hot <02527>, they vanish <01846> from their place <04725>. 6:18 Caravans <0734> <03943> turn aside from their routes <01870>; they go <05927> into the wasteland <08414> and perish <06>. 6:19 The caravans <0734> of Tema <08485> looked <05027> intently for these streams; the traveling merchants <01979> of Sheba <07614> hoped <06960> for them. 6:20 They were distressed <0954>, because <03588> each one had been so confident <0982>; they arrived <0935> there, but were disappointed <02659>. 6:21 For <03588> now <06258> you have become <01961> like these streams that are no <03808> help; you see <07200> a terror <02866>, and are afraid <03372>. 6:22 “Have I ever said <0559>, ‘Give <03051> me something, and from your fortune <03581> make gifts <07809> in <01157> my favor’? 6:23 Or ‘Deliver <04422> me from the enemy’s <06862> power <03027>, and from the hand <03027> of tyrants <06184> ransom <06299> me’? 6:24 “Teach <03384> me and I <0589>, for my part, will be silent <02790>; explain <0995> to me how <04100> I have been mistaken <07686>. 6:25 How <04100> painful <04834> are honest <03476> words <0561>! But what <04100> does your reproof <03198> prove <03198>? 6:26 Do you intend to criticize <03198> mere words <04405>, and treat <02803> the words <0561> of a despairing <02976> man as wind <07307>? 6:27 Yes <0637>, you would gamble <05307> for <05921> the fatherless <03490>, and auction <03738> off <05921> your friend <07453>. 6:28 “Now <06258> then, be good enough <02974> to look <06437> at <05921> me; and I will not <0518> lie <03576> to your face <06440>! 6:29 Relent <07725>, let there be <01961> no <0408> falsehood <05766>; reconsider <07725>, for my righteousness <06664> is intact <05750>! 6:30 Is <03426> there any falsehood <05766> on my lips <03956>? Can <0518> my mouth <02441> not <03808> discern <0995> evil things <01942>?

• Job 6:22-23 -- Friends' Fears
• Job 6:24-27 -- No Sin Discovered
• Job 6:28-30 -- Other Explanation

• Afflictions and Adversities

  [nave] AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES. List of Sub-Topics Miscellany of Minor Sub-Topics; Unclassified Scriptures Relating to; Benefits of; Benefits of, Illustrated; Consolation in; Deliverance from; Design of; Despondency in; Dispe...
  

• Complaint

  [nave] COMPLAINT of Israelites against Moses, Ex. 5:21; 15:24; 16:2, 3; Num. 16:2, 3, 13, 14, 41; 20:2-4. Against God Ex. 5:22, 23; Ex. 16:8, 12; Num. 14:26-37 Num. 17:10, 11. Job 15:11-13; Job 33:12, 13; Job 34:37; Psa. 37:1; Ps...
  

• Job

  [nave] JOB 1. A man who dwelt in Uz, Job 1:1. Righteousness of, Job 1:1, 5, 8; 2:3; Ezek. 14:14, 20. Riches of, Job 1:3. Trial of, by affliction of Satan, Job 1:13-19; 2:7-10. Fortitude of, Job 1:20-22; 2:10; Jas. 5:11. Visite...
  

• Tema

  [ebd] south; desert, one of the sons of Ishmael, and father of a tribe so called (Gen. 25:15; 1 Chr. 1:30; Job 6:19; Isa. 21:14; Jer. 25:23) which settled at a place to which he gave his name, some 250 miles south-east of Edom, on...
  [isbe] TEMA - te'-ma (tema', "south country"; Thaiman): The name of a son of Ishmael (Gen 25:15; 1 Ch 1:30), of the tribe descended from him (Jer 25:23), and of the place where they dwelt (Job 6:19; Isa 21:14). This last was a loca...
  [smith] (a desert), the ninth son of Ishmael, (Genesis 25:15; 1 Chronicles 1:30) whence the tribe called after him, mentioned in (Job 6:19; Jeremiah 25:23) and also the land occupied by this tribe. (Isaiah 21:13,14) (B.C. after 18...
  [nave] TEMA 1. Son of Ishmael, Gen. 25:15; 1 Chr. 1:30. 2. A people of Arabia, probably descendant from Tema, Ishmael's son, Job 6:19; Isa. 21:14; Jer. 25:23.
  

• JOB, BOOK OF

  [isbe] JOB, BOOK OF - || I. INTRODUCTORY 1. Place in the Canon 2. Rank and Readers II. THE LITERARY FRAMEWORK 1. Setting of Time, Place and Scene 2. Characters and Personality 3. Form and Style III. THE COURSE OF THE STORY A) To Jo...
  

• Ice

  [ebd] frequently mentioned (Job 6:16; 38:29; Ps. 147:17, etc.). (See CRYSTAL.)
  [isbe] ICE - is (qerach): Ice is almost unknown in Palestine and Syria except on the highest mountains. At moderate heights of less than 4,000 ft. a little ice may form during the night in winter, but the warm rays of the sun melt ...
  [nave] ICE, Job 6:16; 38:29; Psa. 147:17; Prov. 25:13.
  

• CARAVAN

  [isbe] CARAVAN - kar'-a-van, kar-a-van' ('orach): This word is not found in the King James Version, but the Revised Version (British and American) employs it three times, namely, in Job 6:18,19 ('orchoth), where the King James Vers...
  

• PALESTINE, 3

  [isbe] PALESTINE, 3 - IV. Palestine in the Poetic Books of the Old Testament. 1. Book of Job: In Job the scene is distinctively Edomite. Uz (Job 1:1; compare Gen 22:21 the English Revised Version; Jer 25:20; Lam 4:21) and Buz (Job ...
  

• REPROOF; REPROVE

  [isbe] REPROOF; REPROVE - re-proof', re-proov': "Reprove" in Elizabethan English had a variety of meanings ("reject" "disprove" "convince," "rebuke"), with "put to the proof" (see 2 Tim 4:2 the Revised Version margin) as the force ...
  

• Snow

  [isbe] SNOW - sno (shelegh, telagh (Dan 7:9); chion): (1) Snow is not uncommon in the winter in Jerusalem, but it never reaches any depth and in many winters it is not seen at all. It usually disappears, for the most part, as soon ...
  [nave] SNOW In Palestine, 2 Sam. 23:20. In Uz, Job 6:16; 9:30; 37:6. On mount Lebanon, Jer. 18:14. Figurative Of purity, Psa. 51:7; Isa. 1:18; Lam. 4:7.
  

• Barter

  [nave] BARTER Job 6:27; 41:6; Lam. 1:11 (NIV) Ezek. 27:99 (NRSV) See: Commerce.
  

• PERVERSE

  [isbe] PERVERSE - per-vurs': The group "perverse, -ly, -ness," "act perversely" in the King James Version represents nearly 20 Hebrew words, of which, however, most are derivatives of the stems `awah, luz, `aqash. The Revised Versi...
  

• Frost

  [ebd] (Heb. kerah, from its smoothness) Job 37:10 (R.V., "ice"); Gen. 31:40; Jer. 36:30; rendered "ice" in Job 6:16, 38:29; and "crystal" in Ezek. 1:22. "At the present day frost is entirely unknown in the lower portions of the va...
  

• Orphan

  [nave] ORPHAN. Ex. 22:22-24; Deut. 10:18; Deut. 14:28, 29; Deut. 16:11, 14; Deut. 24:17-22; Deut. 26:12, 13; Deut. 27:19; Job 6:27; Job 22:9; Job 24:3, 9; Job 29:12, 13; Job 31:16-18, 21; Psa. 10:14, 17, 18; Psa. 27:10; Psa. 68:5;...
  

• RIGHT

  [isbe] RIGHT - rit (yashar, mishpaT; dikaios, euthus): Many Hebrew words are translated "right," with different shades of meaning. Of these the two noted are the most important: yashar, with the sense of being straight, direct, as ...
  

• SABAEANS

  [isbe] SABAEANS - sa-be'-anz (shebha'im (Joel 3:8 the King James Version), cebha'-im; Sabaeim, Sebaeim (Isa 45:14); read cabha'im, but rendered as though from cabha', "to imbibe," hence, "drunkards"; oinomenoi, "wine-drunken" (Ezek...
  

• TONGUE

  [isbe] TONGUE - tung: Almost invariably for either lashon, or glossa the latter word with the cognates heteroglossos, "of strange tongues" (1 Cor 14:21), glossodes, "talkative," English Versions of the Bible "full of tongue" (Sirac...
  

• PEACE

  [isbe] PEACE - pes (shalom; eirene): 1. In the Old Testament: Is a condition of freedom from disturbance, whether outwardly, as of a nation from war or enemies, or inwardly, within the soul. The Hebrew word is shalom (both adjectiv...
  

• SHEBA (1)

  [isbe] SHEBA (1) - she'-ba (shebha'; Saba): (1) Sheba and Dedan are the two sons of Raamah son of Cush (Gen 10:7). (2) Sheba and Dedan are the two sons of Jokshan the son of Abraham and Keturah (Gen 25:3). (3) Sheba is a son of Jok...
  

• Merchant

  [ebd] The Hebrew word so rendered is from a root meaning "to travel about," "to migrate," and hence "a traveller." In the East, in ancient times, merchants travelled about with their merchandise from place to place (Gen. 37:25; Jo...
  

• The Strength Is Fainting

  

• Who Were the Ishmaelites?
  They were descendants of Ishmael, Abraham's son, and were divided into twelve tribes (Gen. 25:16; Gen. 16:15,16). They were also called Hagarites, Hagarenes and Arabians (I Chron. 5:10; Psa. 83:6; Isa. 13:20). They were gover...

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