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Job 6:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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

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My brethren.

Job 19:19• ¹⁹All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. (Job 19:19)

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

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Psa. 41:9• ⁹Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. (Psa. 41:9)

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Psa. 55:12‑14• ¹²For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
¹³But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
¹⁴We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. (Psa. 55:12‑14)

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Psa. 88:18• ¹⁸Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. (Psa. 88:18)

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Jer. 9:4‑5• ⁴Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.
⁵And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. (Jer. 9:4‑5)

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Jer. 30:14• ¹⁴All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased. (Jer. 30:14)

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Mic. 7:5‑6• ⁵Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
⁶For the son dishonoreth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house. (Mic. 7:5‑6)

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John 13:18• ¹⁸I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. (John 13:18)

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John 16:32• ³²Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. (John 16:32)

as the stream.

Jer. 15:18• ¹⁸Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail? (Jer. 15:18)

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Jude 12• ¹²These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; (Jude 12)

• {v.15-21} These “brethren” are like a summer stream, swollen by melting snow and ice in winter, which gives promise of perennial supply for the thirsty, but when the troops of travelers come, they find only the dry stones to mock them. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

• It was indeed most disappointing. Eliphaz might speak in lofty language of the greatness and faithfulness of God, but what about himself; was he acting the part of a true friend? (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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