Job 6:15

¹³ Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

¹⁴ To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

¹⁶ Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

¹⁷ What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

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,

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Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
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