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In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
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The Vanishing Stream
Commentators explain that Job is describing a literal desert phenomenon. Brooks, swollen with water from melting mountain snow, appear strong and reliable but quickly evaporate and vanish under the intense heat of the sun, failing any traveler who depended on them.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
What time - In the time; or after a time.
They wax warm - Gesenius renders this word (יזרבו ye…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
What time they wax warm they vanish The ice and the snow, which, when the weather becomes warm, they melt away and d…
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…
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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…
