King James Version
Job 6:18 in the King James Version says “The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.” — study this verse from Job chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.”
Job 6:18 · KJV
Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. vanish: Heb. are cut off when: Heb. in the heat thereof consumed: Heb. extinguished
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“are turned aside”
H3943properly, to bend, i.e., (by implication) to clasp; also (reflexively) to turn around or aside
“of their way”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
“they go”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
“to nothing”
H8414a desolation (of surface), i.e., desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
“and perish”
H6properly, to wander away, i.e., lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
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