Job 6:18
Job 6:14-23 The Message (MSG)
“When desperate people give up on God Almighty, their friends, at least, should stick with them. But my brothers are fickle as a gulch in the desert— one day they’re gushing with water From melting ice and snow cascading out of the mountains, But by midsummer they’re dry, gullies baked dry in the sun. Travelers who spot them and go out of their way for a drink end up in a waterless gulch and die of thirst. Merchant caravans from Tema see them and expect water, tourists from Sheba hope for a cool drink. They arrive so confident—but what a disappointment! They get there, and their faces fall! And you, my so-called friends, are no better— there’s nothing to you! One look at a hard scene and you shrink in fear. It’s not as though I asked you for anything— I didn’t ask you for one red cent— Nor did I beg you to go out on a limb for me. So why all this dodging and shuffling?
Job 6:18 King James Version (KJV)
The paths of their way are turned aside; They go to nothing, and perish.
Job 6:18 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
The paths of their course wind along, They go up into nothing and perish.
Job 6:18 New Century Version (NCV)
Travelers turn away from their paths and go into the desert and die.
Job 6:18 American Standard Version (ASV)
The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.
Job 6:18 New International Version (NIV)
Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go off into the wasteland and perish.
Job 6:18 New King James Version (NKJV)
The paths of their way turn aside, They go nowhere and perish.
Job 6:18 Amplified Bible (AMP)
The paths of their course wind along, They go up into nothing and perish. [Your counsel is as helpful to me as a dry streambed in the heat of summer.]