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Job 6:17 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Job 6:17Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 6:176 words
HebrewMeaning
בְּ֭/עֵתbəʿēt
at the timepronH6256
after · certain · continually · evening ···
יְזֹרְב֣וּyəzōrəbw
when they flowverbH2215
נִצְמָ֑תוּniṣəmātw
they are silencedverbH6789
cut off · destroy · vanish
בְּ֝/חֻמּ֗/וֹbəḥumwō
heatpronH2527
to be hot
נִדְעֲכ֥וּnidəʿăkw
they are dried upverbH1846
consumed · put out · quenched
מִ/מְּקוֹמָֽ/םmiməqwōmām
from place theirpronH4725
home · open · place · room ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 6:17

What time they be dissipated they shall perish. For all persons that are ruled by concern for the present life, are brought to nought by the loss of it, and then they are undone without, who have for long been undone within by disregarding the things of eternity. Concerning whom it is rightly added, When they have become hot, they shall be dissolved from their place. For every wicked man when he ‘has become hot is dissolved from his place,’ in that, in drawing near to the…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 7 §32
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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