Job 6:21 “For now you are of no help; you see terror, and you are afraid.”

Job 6:21

For now you are of no help; you see terror, and you are afraid.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

World English Bible

For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

American Standard Version

For now ye are nothing; Ye see a terror, and are afraid.

Geneva Bible 1599

Surely nowe are ye like vnto it: ye haue seene my fearefull plague, and are afraide.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.

Bible in Basic English

So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear.

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Cross references

“ye are nothing”

Job 6:15 Job 13:4 Psalm 62:9 Isaiah 2:22 Jeremiah 17:5 Jeremiah 17:6

Job 6:15 · BSB

But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,

Job 13:4 · BSB

You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.

Psalm 62:9 · BSB

Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

Isaiah 2:22 · BSB

Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

Jeremiah 17:5 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

Jeremiah 17:6 · BSB

He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

“ye see”

Psalm 38:11 2 Timothy 4:16 Job 2:11–13 Proverbs 19:7 Jeremiah 51:9 Matthew 26:31

Psalm 38:11 · BSB

My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.

2 Timothy 4:16 · BSB

At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.

Job 2:11–13 · BSB

Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sym…

Proverbs 19:7 · BSB

All the brothers of a poor man hate him— how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.

Jeremiah 51:9 · BSB

“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”

Matthew 26:31 · BSB

Then Jesus said to them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of Me. For it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

20They are confounded because they had hoped; their arrival brings disappointment.

22Have I ever said, ‘Give me something; offer me a bribe from your wealth;

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