Job 6:18 (BSB)
Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.
Commentary on Job 6:18
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 6:14-21: Eliphaz had been very severe in his censures of Job; and his companions, though as yet they had said little, yet had intimated their concurrence with him. Their unkindness therein poor Job here complains of, as an aggravation of his calamity and a further excuse of his desire to die; for what satisfaction could he ever expect in this world when those that should have...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 6:18: The troops of Tema looked,.... A city in Arabia, so called from Tema a son of Ishmael, Gen 25:15; these troops or companies were travelling ones, either that travelled to Tema, or that went from thence to other places for merchandise, see Isa 21:13; these, as they passed along in their caravans, as the Turks their successors now do, looked at those places where in...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 6:18: turned aside--rather, "caravans" (Hebrew, "travellers") turn aside from their way, by circuitous routes, to obtain water. They had seen the brook in spring full of water: and now in the summer heat, on their weary journey, they turn off their road by a devious route to reach the living waters, which they remembered with such pleasure. But, when "they go," it is "into a desert" [NOYES and UMBREIT].
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Job 6:18-20: Job 6:18-20 18 The paths of their course are turned about, They go up in the waste and perish. 19 The travelling bands of Têma looked for them, The caravans of Saba hoped for them; 20 They were disappointed on account of their trust, They came thus far, and were red with shame. As the text is pointed, ארחות, Job 6:18, are the paths of the torrents.