My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
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Gill's Exposition
Which are blackish by reason of the ice,.... When frozen over, they look of a blackish colour, and is what is called a black frost; and these either describe Job and his domestics, as some (h) think…
Barnes' Notes
My brethren - To wit, the three friends who had come to condole with him. He uses the language of brethren, to intimate what he had a right to expect from them. It is common in all languages to give…
Eliphaz had been very severe in his censures of Job; and his companions, though as yet they had said little, yet had intimated their concurrence with him. Their unkindness therein poor Job here…
Cambridge Bible
they pass away Better, that pass away, cf. ch. Job 11:16. The other sense, that overflow(their banks), is improbable.
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