Job 6:18
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.
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.
- KJV
- The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
- WEB
- The caravans that travel beside them turn away. They go up into the waste, and perish.
- ASV
- The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.
- DARBY
- They wind about in the paths of their course, they go off into the waste and perish.
- BLB
- The caravans turn aside [from] their paths; they go up into the wasteland and perish.
- ÅB
- Karavaner som er på veien til dem, bøyer av; de drar opp i ørkenen og omkommer.
- OTB
- Deres stier svinger;
de stiger opp i ødemarken og går tapt. - B1930
- Karavaner som er på veien til dem, bøier av; de drar op i ørkenen og omkommer.