The Meaning of Job 6:18 Explained

Job 6:18

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

YLT: Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.

Darby: They wind about in the paths of their course, they go off into the waste and perish.

ASV: The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 6:18?

MEANING: What does Job 6:18 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 6:18 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 6:18?

What is the context of Job 6:18?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 6:18 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 6:18 mean?

Turn aside the paths of their way they go nowhere and perish

יִ֭לָּ֣פְתוּ אָרְח֣וֹת דַּרְכָּ֑ם יַעֲל֖וּ בַתֹּ֣הוּ וְיֹאבֵֽדוּ

יִ֭לָּ֣פְתוּ	Turn aside
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural Root: לָפַת Sense: to twist, grasp, turn, grasp with a twisting motion.
אָרְח֣וֹת	the paths
Parse: Noun, common plural construct Root: אֹרַח Sense: way, path.
דַּרְכָּ֑ם	of their way
Parse: Noun, common singular construct, third person masculine plural Root: דֶּרֶךְ Sense: way, road, distance, journey, manner.
יַעֲל֖וּ	they go
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural Root: סָלַק Sense: to go up, ascend, climb.
בַתֹּ֣הוּ	nowhere
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine singular Root: תֹּהוּ Sense: formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness.
וְיֹאבֵֽדוּ	and perish
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive imperfect, third person masculine plural Root: אָבַד Sense: perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed.

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