Job Chapter 6 verse 19 Holy Bible
The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them.
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The camel-trains of Tema were searching with care, the bands of Sheba were waiting for them:
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The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba counted on them:
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The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
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The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
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The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them.
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Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - The troops of Tema looked. The Tema were an Arab tribe descended from Ishmael (Genesis 25:15). They are generally conjoined with Dedan (Isaiah 21:13, 14; Jeremiah 25:23), another Arab tribe, noted for carry-lug on a caravan trade. Both tribes probably wandered, and occupied at different periods different portions of the desert. The name, Tema, may linger in the modern city and district of Tayma on the confines of Syria, and upon the pilgrim-route between Damascus and Mecca. The "troops of Tema" probably looked for the "caravans" of ver. 18 to arrive in their country; but they looked in vain. The desert had swallowed them up. The companies of Sheba waited for them. (On "Sheba," see the comment upon Job 1:15.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) The troops of Tema.--Frst says of Tema that it was a tract in the north of the Arabian Desert, on the borders of the Syrian one, where traffic was carried on from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean by caravans (Isaiah 21:14; Jeremiah 25:23; Job 6:19). Sheba, as understood here, was probably a district on the Arabian Gulf (see Job 1:15), where merchants trafficked with the distant cities of the East, as well as enriched themselves with the plunder of their neighbours, as in Job 1:15.
