Job 6:21 KJV

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

Thou and Ye

  • ye more than one

In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?

Matthew Henry

  • Job reproves his friends as unkindIn 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...

Parallel Passages

  • Psalms 38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).

Cross References

  • Psalms 38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
  • Job 2:11–13 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him. …
  • Job 6:15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
  • Job 13:4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
  • Psalms 62:9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

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Hebrew and Strong’s

  • For now ye are nothing; ye see כִּי kî Conjunction עַתָּה ʿattâ Adverb הֱיִיתֶם hĕyîtem Verb · qal perfect, second person masculine plural לוֹ lô Preposition · with suffix: third person masculine singular תִּרְאוּ tirʾû רָאָה Verb · qal imperfect, second person masculine plural
  • casting down חֲתַת ḥătat חֲתַת Noun · masculine singular
  • and are afraid וַתִּירָאוּ wattîrāʾww יָרֵא Verb · qal sequential imperfect, second person masculine plural · with and

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