433 B
433 B
But my brothers have acted as deceitfully to me as a desert streambed
"But my friends are unfaithful to me. They are like a desert streambed". Job speaks of his friends as being like a "wadi" which is a stream that can suddenly dry up and his friends ironically here as his "brothers."
as channels of water that pass away to nothing
"like streams of water that dry up." Job continues speaking of his friends being unfaithful.