Job 6:21

Job 6:21 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
• New International Version (NIV)Now you too have proved to be of no help; you see something dreadful and are afraid.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For now you are nothing, You see terror and are afraid.
• New Living Translation (NLT)You, too, have given no help. You have seen my calamity, and you are afraid.

Context of Job 6:21

19The caravans of Tema look, the travelers of Sheba hope. 20They are ashamed because they were confident; they come there and are disappointed. For you have now become nothing; you see my calamity and are afraid. 22Have I said, 'Make me a gift'? Or, 'From your wealth offer a bribe for me'? 23Or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand'? Or, 'Redeem me from the hand of the ruthless'?

Job 6:21 word by word

כִּֽי־עַ֭תָּה הֱיִ֣יתֶם ל֑וֹ תִּֽרְא֥וּ חֲ֝תַ֗ת וַתִּירָֽאוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For now ye are nothing; ye seeרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• casting downחֲתַתchăthath · terrorH2866
• and are afraidיָרֵאyârê' · to fearH3372

Cross-references for Job 6:21

• Job 6:15My brothers are treacherous as a torrent-bed, as torrential streams that pass away,
• Job 13:4As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
• Psalms 62:9Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
• Isaiah 2:22Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?
• Jeremiah 17:5Thus says the Lord: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord.
• Job 2:11Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
• Psalms 38:11My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off.
• Proverbs 19:7All a poor man's brothers hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but does not have them.
• Jeremiah 51:9We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country, for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies.
• Matthew 26:31Then Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'
• 2 Timothy 4:16At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them!
• Revelation 18:9And the kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning.

Commentaries on Job 6:21

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 21For now ye are nothing - Ye are just to me as those deceitful torrents to the caravans of Tema and Sheba; they were nothing to them; ye are nothing to me. Ye see my casting down - Ye see that I have been hurried from my eminence into want and misery, as the flood from the top of the mountains, which is divided, evaporated, and lost in the desert. And are afraid - Ye are terrified at the calamity that has come upon me; and instead of drawing near to…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 21For now ye are as nothing - Margin, “or, Ye are like to it, or them.” In the margin also the word “nothing” is rendered “not.” This variety arises from a difference of reading in the Hebrew text, many MSS. having instead of (לא lô' ), not, (לו lô' ), to him, or to it. Which is correct, it is not easy to determine. Rosenmuller supposes that it is only a variety in writing the word לא l' where the waw is often used for.א The probability is, that it means…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-30Verses 14-30 In his prosperity Job formed great expectations from his friends, but now was disappointed. This he compares to the failing of brooks in summer. Those who rest their expectations on the creature, will find it fail when it should help them; whereas those who make God their confidence, have help in the time of need, He 4:16. Those who make gold their hope, sooner or later will be ashamed of it, and of their confidence in it. It is our wisdom to…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-27Job and his friends might have shared a covenant (special agreement) of loyalty and faith (Hebrew khesed; see Genesis 21:23; Exodus 15:13; 1 Chronicles 16:34). This bond would have made them like brothers, those who protect, and friends he could trust (Job 6:14–15; 6:21–23, 27). If they were in a covenant with one another, Job was accusing his friends of violating their covenant with him.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2121. As the dried-up brook is to the caravan, so are ye to me, namely, a nothing; ye might as well not be in existence [Umbreit]. The Margin "like to them," or "to it" (namely, the waters of the brook), is not so good a reading. ye see, and are afraid--Ye are struck aghast at the sight of my misery, and ye lose presence of mind. Job puts this mild construction on their failing to relieve him with affectionate consolation.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 6:21

• Afflictions and Adversities

In the dictionaries

• Arguing
• Arrow
• Conceal
• Harden
• Sorrowful
• Terror
• Papyrus

Commentaries on Job 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings