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My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;
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The Treacherous Brook
Commentators explain that Job's comparison of his friends to a 'deceitful brook' is a powerful desert image. Like a wadi that rages with water after a rain but is bone-dry when a thirsty traveler arrives in the heat, his friends' support vanished when he needed it most. Their friendship proved to be as unreliable as a temporary desert stream.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
My brethren – Namely, the three friends who had come to condole with him. He uses the term "brethren" to intimate what he had a right to exp…
19th Century
Anglican
Have dealt deceitfully as a brook. —This is one of the most celebrated poetical similes in the book, and carries us to li…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook Meaning his three friends, represented by Eliphaz, who were of the sam…
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In his prosperity, Job formed great expectations from his friends, but now was disappointed. This he compares to the failing of brooks in summer. T…
13th Century
Catholic
In the preceding verses, Job had shown that while he felt pain and spoke from that pain, he did so rationally and was not carried away by his suffe…
