Job 6:20 meaning and explanation

They are confounded because they had hoped; their arrival brings disappointment.

Job 6:20, Berean Standard Bible

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Job is answering Eliphaz, who has urged him to accept suffering as discipline. Here Job compares his three friends to desert streams that swell with melting snow and then vanish in the heat, just when travelers need them.

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