Job 6:20
Good News Translation
but their hope dies beside dry streams.

New Revised Standard Version
They are disappointed because they were confident; they come there and are confounded.

Contemporary English Version
thought they would find water. But they were disappointed,

New American Bible
They are disappointed, though they were confident; they come there and are frustrated.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They are confounded, because I have hoped: they are come also even unto me, and are covered with shame.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They are confounded, because I have hoped: they are come also even unto me, and are covered with shame.

confounded.

Jeremiah 14:3,4 The great ones sent their inferiors to the water: they came to draw, they found no water, they carried back their vessels empty: they were confounded and afflicted, and covered their heads. . . .

Jeremiah 17:13 O Lord, the hope of Israel: all that forsake thee shall be confounded: they that depart from thee, shall be written in the earth: because they have forsaken the Lord, the vein of living waters.

Romans 5:5 And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost who is given to us.

Romans 9:33 As it is written: Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and a rock of scandal. And whosoever believeth in him shall not be confounded.

Context
Job Replies: My Complaint is Just
19Consider the paths of Thema, the ways of Saba, and wait a little while. 20They are confounded, because I have hoped: they are come also even unto me, and are covered with shame.21Now you are come: and now, seeing my affliction, you are afraid.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 14:3
The great ones sent their inferiors to the water: they came to draw, they found no water, they carried back their vessels empty: they were confounded and afflicted, and covered their heads.

Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed? it is become to me as the falsehood of deceitful waters that cannot be trusted.

Job 6:19
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