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The Book of Job, Chapter 6, Verse 17

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Which are blackish by reason of the ice, [and] wherein the snow is hid:
King James Version
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
American Standard Version
What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
New English Translation
When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.
World English Bible
In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
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The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
19
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
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They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
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For now ye are nothing; ye see [my] casting down, and are afraid.
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Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
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Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
24
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
25
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
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Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind?
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Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend.