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The Book of Job, Chapter 6, Verse 18

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What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
King James Version
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
American Standard Version
The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.
New English Translation
Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.
World English Bible
The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.
19
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
20
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
21
For now ye are nothing; ye see [my] casting down, and are afraid.
22
Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
23
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?
26
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind?
27
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend.
28
Now therefore be content, look upon me; for [it is] evident unto you if I lie.