The Meaning of Job 6:15 Explained

Job 6:15

KJV: My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

YLT: My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.

Darby: My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a stream, as the channel of streams which pass away,

ASV: My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;

Discover Job 6:15

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 6:15?

MEANING: What does Job 6:15 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 6:15 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 6:15?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

My brethren  have dealt deceitfully  as a brook,  [and] as the stream  of brooks  they pass away; 

What does Job 6:15 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 6:1-30 - "a Deceitful Brook"
The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of his pain, Job 6:4, or they would have seen it to be as natural as the braying and lowing of hungry and suffering beasts, Job 6:5. A man would not take insipid food without complaint; how much more reason had he to complain whose tears were his meat day and night, Job 6:6-7! So bitter were his pains that he would welcome death, and exult in the throes of dissolution, Job 6:8-10. It could hardly be otherwise than that he should succumb, since he had only the ordinary strength of mortals, and both strength and wisdom were exhausted, Job 6:11-13.
Job next characterizes the assistance of his friends as winter brooks, turbid with melted ice and snow, which bitterly disappoint the travelers who had hoped to find water, and perish beside the dry heaps of stones, Job 6:17. They had found fault with his words, which, in the circumstances, were not a true index to his heart, Job 6:26; but a look into his face would have sufficed to attest his innocence of the sin of which they accused him, Job 6:28-30.
From these complaints of faithlessness and disappointment we turn to Him who, having been made perfect through suffering, has become "the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him," Hebrews 5:9. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 6

1  Job shows that his complaints are not causeless
8  He wishes for death, wherein he is assured of comfort
14  He reproves his friends of unkindness

What do the individual words in Job 6:15 mean?

My brothers have dealt deceitfully like a brook Like the streams of the brooks that pass away
אַ֭חַי בָּגְד֣וּ כְמוֹ־ נָ֑חַל כַּאֲפִ֖יק נְחָלִ֣ים יַעֲבֹֽרוּ

אַ֭חַי  My  brothers 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common singular
Root: אָח  
Sense: brother.
בָּגְד֣וּ  have  dealt  deceitfully 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: בָּגַד  
Sense: to act treacherously, deceitfully, deal treacherously.
כְמוֹ־  like 
Parse: Preposition
Root: כְּמֹו  
Sense: like, as, the like of which conj.
נָ֑חַל  a  brook 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: נַחַל 
Sense: torrent, valley, wadi, torrent-valley.
כַּאֲפִ֖יק  Like  the  streams 
Parse: Preposition-k, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: אָפִיק 
Sense: channel.
נְחָלִ֣ים  of  the  brooks 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: נַחַל 
Sense: torrent, valley, wadi, torrent-valley.
יַעֲבֹֽרוּ  that  pass  away 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: עָבַר 
Sense: to pass over or by or through, alienate, bring, carry, do away, take, take away, transgress.

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