Job 6:15

¹³ Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?

¹⁴ A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,

¹⁶ darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow,

¹⁷ but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,
KJV: My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
WEB: My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;
ASV: My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;
DARBY: My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a stream, as the channel of streams which pass away,
BLB: My brothers are treacherous like a wadi, like a channel of wadis they pass away,

ÅB: Men mine brødre har sviktet som en bekk, som strømmer hvis vann skyller over,
OTB: Men mine brødre har handlet svikefullt som en bekk,
som strømmene som flommer over
B1930: Men mine brødre har sviktet som en bekk, som strømmer hvis vann skyller over,

Psalms 38:11
My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
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Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me— water that is not there.
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Psalms 41:9
Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
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John 13:18
I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: ‘The one who shares My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’
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John 16:32
“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.
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Psalms 55:12–14
For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.
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Psalms 88:18
You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
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Job 19:19
All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
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