Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 6:19

"The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them." — Job 6:19 (ASV)

The troops of Tema. — Fürst says of Tema that it was a tract in the north of the Arabian Desert, on the borders of the Syrian desert, where trade was conducted from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean by caravans (Isaiah 21:14; Jeremiah 25:23; Job 6:19).

Sheba, as understood here, was probably a district on the Arabian Gulf , where merchants traded with the distant cities of the East, as well as enriched themselves with the plunder of their neighbors, as in Job 1:15.