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Job 6:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For now θye are κnothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

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or, ye are like to it, or, them.

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not.

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ye are nothing.

or, ye are like to them.

Heb. to it.

Job 6:15• ¹⁵My brethren have deceived as a torrent,{HR}As the bed of torrents which overflow. (Job 6:15)

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Job 13:4• ⁴But ye [are] forgers of lies,{HR}Physicians of no value [are] ye all. (Job 13:4)

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Psa. 62:9• ⁹Only a breath [are] lowborn men,{HR}A lie are highborn men;{HR}In a balance they go up less than a breath together. (Psa. 62:9)

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Isa. 2:22• ²²Cease ye from man , whose breath is in his nostrils, for wherein is he to be accounted of? (Isa. 2:22)

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Jer. 17:5‑6• ⁵Thus saith Jehovah; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.
⁶For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. (Jer. 17:5‑6)

nothing.

Heb. not.

ye see.

Job 2:11‑13• ¹¹Now three friends of Job heard of all this evil that was come upon him, and they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
¹²And they lifted up their eyes from afar, and knew him not; and they lifted up their voice and wept; and they rent each one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
¹³And they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him; for they saw that the pain was very great. (Job 2:11‑13)

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Psa. 38:11• ¹¹My lovers and my neighbours stand aloof from my calamity,{HR}And my kinsmen have stood afar off. (Psa. 38:11)

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Prov. 19:7• ⁷All the brothers of the poor hate him;{HR}How much more do his friends go far from him?{HR}He pursueth [with] words: they are not. (Prov. 19:7)

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Jer. 51:9• ⁹We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. (Jer. 51:9)

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Matt. 26:31,56• ³¹Then saith Jesus to them, All ye shall be offended in me during this night. For it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
⁵⁶But all this is come to pass that the scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him and fled. (Matt. 26:31,56)

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2 Tim. 4:16• ¹⁶At my first defence no one took my part, but all deserted me: may it not be laid to their account. (2 Tim. 4:16)

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Rev. 18:9‑10,17‑18• ⁹And the kings of the earth that committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her shall weep and wail on account of her, when they see the smoke of her burning,
¹⁰standing afar off because of the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour came thy judgment.
¹⁷for in one hour were so great riches made desolate. And every pilot and every voyager and sailors and as many as trade by the sea stood afar off,
¹⁸and cried, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like the great city! (Rev. 18:9‑10,17‑18)

• {v.21-23} How differently speaks Paul: “At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me... Notwithstanding the Lord stood by me” (2 Tim. 4:16, 17). Let us learn from Job’s failure not to put the dearest earthly friend between us and God. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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So now ye are nothing; ye see a terrible object and are afraid.

W. Kelly Translation

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For truly ye are become nothing,{HR}Ye see a terror, and are dismayed.