King James Version
Job 6:19 in the King James Version says “The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.” — study this verse from Job chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.”
Job 6:19 · KJV
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.
For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid. ye are: or, ye are like to them: Heb. to it nothing: Heb. not
KJV Study — Public Domain
“looked”
H5027to scan, i.e., look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care
“of Sheba”
H7614sheba, the name of three early progenitors of tribes and of an ethiopian district
“waited”
H6960to bind together (perhaps by twisting), i.e., collect; (figuratively) to expect
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