Job 6:17

World English Bible (2000)

In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word."
  • Job 24:19 : 19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

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  • 18The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

  • 16Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.

  • Job 4:19-21
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    19How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

    20Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

    21Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

  • Job 24:18-19
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    18"They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.

    19Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

  • 9By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

  • 16For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

  • Ps 73:18-19
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    18Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

    19How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

  • 18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

  • 6In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

  • Ps 58:7-9
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    7Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

    8Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

    9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

  • 2As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

  • 11For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

  • 6When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

  • 16It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

  • 14Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

  • 26They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

  • 2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

  • 12While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

  • 3For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

  • 10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

  • 20saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'

  • 7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

  • 3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.

  • 24They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

  • 12They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

  • 6His going forth is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.

  • Job 37:8-9
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    8Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens.

    9Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north.

  • 6When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

  • 30He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

  • 3They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

  • 18For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

  • 17He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?

  • 29You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

  • 14As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

  • 15They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • 3A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

  • 18They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • 11They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like a garment does.

  • 6Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

  • 24They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

  • 16who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

  • 18"But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

  • 17The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.