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- The caravans that travel by their way turn aside for water - Job is continuing his description of his friends being as unreliable as streams that dry up. AT: "The paths of travelers change course looking for water"
- The caravans - This phrase can also be translated as "the paths of caravans" or "the paths of travelers" or "travelers."
- they wander into barren land and then perish - "they go nowhere and then die"
- Tema - This is the name of a place. The people of that place used caravans to trade things with people from other lands. (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:translate_names)
- while companies of Sheba hoped in them - "while travelers from Sheba hoped for them"
- Sheba - This is the name of a place. The people of that place used caravans to trade things with people from other lands. (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:translate_names)
- hoped in them - "hoped for them" or "put their hope in them"
- They were disappointed because they had been confident of finding water - "They were confused because they had trusted that they would find water"
- but they were deceived - AT: "but they were disappointed" or "but they were not satisfied"