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Job 6:18

Job 6:18
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

The troops of Tema looked,.... A city in Arabia, so called from Tema a son of Ishmael, Gen 25:15; these troops or companies were travelling ones, either that travelled to Tema, or that went from…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

The paths of their way are turned aside - Noyes renders this, “The caravans turn aside to them on their way.” Good, “The outlets of their channel wind about.” Rosenmuller, “The bands of travelers…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 6:14-21

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

they go to nothing Rather, they go up into the waste. The expression go upin Heb. is used when no ascent in the strict sense is meant; it signifies to go inland, into the interior of a region. The…