“What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.”
Job states that when the path is hot, the streams dry up and when it is warm, they disappear from their places, suggesting that the friends' comfort evaporates precisely when the heat of suffering is greatest. The cycle of the seasons becomes a metaphor for the rhythm of human need and human support: they fail to align. The metaphor suggests that the friends are present in times of ease but absent in extremity.
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