Job Chapter 6 verse 18 Holy Bible
The caravans `that travel' by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.
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The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.
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They wind about in the paths of their course, they go off into the waste and perish.
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The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
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The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
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The caravans that travel beside them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.
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Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - The paths of their way are turned aside; rather, as in the Revised Version, the caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside. It seems impossible that the streams can be intended, since their paths are never "turned aside" - they simply shrink, fail, and dry up. But nothing is commoner than for caravans short of water to go out of their way in order to reach a wady, where they expect to be able to replenish their water-skins. If they are disappointed, if the wady is dry, they may be brought into great straits, and may even possibly perish. (For a probable instance, where dependence on a wady would, but for a miracle, have led to a great disaster, see 2 Kings 3:9-20.) They go to nothing, and perish; rather, they go up into the waste and perish. Having vainly sought water in the dry wady, they ascend out of it, and enter the broad waste of the desert, where they too often miserably perish.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) They go to nothing.--It is doubtful whether this applies to the streams or to the caravans. Thus, "The paths of their way are turned aside and come to nought;" or, "The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside, and go into the waste and perish." The nineteenth verse seems to suggest the latter as the more probable.
