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Job 6:19

The people and camels of Tema looked. The travelers of Sheba hoped for them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Tema;   Thompson Chain Reference - Sheba;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Commerce;   Ishmaelites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - River;   Sabeans;   Tema;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Arabia;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hope;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Contrite;   Greatness of God;   Sanctification;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Tema;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Sheba (2);   Tema;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Caravan;   Sabean;   Tema;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Sheba;   Tema;   Uz;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sheba ;   Tema ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Te'ma;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Commerce;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Caravan;   Company;   Job, Book of;   Sabaeans;   Sheba (1);   Tema;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Brook;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Caravan;   Sabeans;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The caravans of Tema look for these streams.The traveling merchants of Sheba hope for them.
Hebrew Names Version
The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheva waited for them.
King James Version
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
English Standard Version
The caravans of Tema look, the travelers of Sheba hope.
New Century Version
The groups of travelers from Tema look for water, and the traders of Sheba look hopefully.
New English Translation
The caravans of Tema looked intently for these streams; the traveling merchants of Sheba hoped for them.
Amplified Bible
"The caravans of Tema looked [for water], The caravans of Sheba waited for them [in vain].
New American Standard Bible
"The caravans of Tema looked, The travelers of Sheba hoped for them.
World English Bible
The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They that go to Tema, considered them, and they that goe to Sheba, waited for them.
Legacy Standard Bible
The caravans of Tema looked;The travelers of Sheba hoped for them.
Berean Standard Bible
The caravans of Tema look for water; the travelers of Sheba hope to find it.
Contemporary English Version
Caravans from Tema and Sheba
Complete Jewish Bible
The caravans from Tema look for them, the travelers from Sh'va hope to find them;
Darby Translation
The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba counted on them:
Easy-to-Read Version
Traders from Tema search for it. Travelers from Sheba hope to find it.
George Lamsa Translation
For they have looked toward the roads of the south, and have waited for the paths of Sheba.
Good News Translation
Caravans from Sheba and Tema search,
Lexham English Bible
The caravans of Tema looked; the traveling merchants of Sheba hope for them.
Literal Translation
The troops of Tema looked; the travelers of Sheba hoped for them;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Considre the pathes off Theman, & the wayes off Saba, wherin they haue put their trust.
American Standard Version
The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them.
Bible in Basic English
The camel-trains of Tema were searching with care, the bands of Sheba were waiting for them:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They that went to The man considered them, and they that went to Saba wayted for them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them--
King James Version (1611)
The troupes of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Behold the ways of the Thaemanites, ye that mark the paths of the Sabaeans.
English Revised Version
The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Biholde ye the pathis of Theman, and the weies of Saba; and abide ye a litil.
Update Bible Version
The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them.
Webster's Bible Translation
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
New King James Version
The caravans of Tema look, The travelers of Sheba hope for them.
New Living Translation
The caravans from Tema search for this water; the travelers from Sheba hope to find it.
New Revised Standard
The caravans of Tema look, the travelers of Sheba hope.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The caravans of Tema looked about, the travelling companies of Sheba, hoped for them:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Consider the paths of Thema, the ways of Saba, and wait a little while.
Revised Standard Version
The caravans of Tema look, the travelers of Sheba hope.
Young's Literal Translation
Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The caravans of Tema looked, The travelers of Sheba hoped for them.

Contextual Overview

14 "Kindness from a friend should be shown to a man without hope, or he might turn away from the fear of the All-powerful. 15 My brothers have been like rivers that are not there when needed. 16 They are dark because of ice and snow turning into water. 17 When they have no water, there is no noise. When it is hot, they are not there. 18 The people on their camels turn away from them. They go into the waste places and die. 19 The people and camels of Tema looked. The travelers of Sheba hoped for them. 20 They were troubled for they had trusted. They came there and their hope goes. 21 Yes, this is how you have been. You see my trouble and are afraid.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Tema: Genesis 25:15, Isaiah 21:14, Jeremiah 25:23

Sheba: Genesis 10:7, Genesis 25:3, 1 Kings 10:1, Psalms 72:10, Ezekiel 27:22, Ezekiel 27:23

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 1:32 - Sheba Job 2:11 - Temanite Isaiah 21:15 - from the swords Jeremiah 49:20 - Teman

Cross-References

Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful. And they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
Genesis 6:3
Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not stay in man forever, for he is flesh. But yet he will live for 120 years."
Genesis 6:8
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
Genesis 6:9
This is the story of Noah and his family. Noah was right with God. He was without blame in his time. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:15
This is how you are to make it: The boat is to be as long as 150 long steps, as wide as twenty-five long steps, and eight times taller than a man.
Genesis 6:16
Make a window for the boat, that goes down a cubit from the roof. Put a door in the side of the boat. And make it with first, second, and third floors.
Genesis 8:17
Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and everything that moves on the earth. So they may give birth and become many upon the earth."
Psalms 36:6
You are as right and good as mountains are big. You are as fair when You judge as a sea is deep. O Lord, You keep safe both man and animal.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The troops of Tema looked,.... A city in Arabia, so called from Tema a son of Ishmael, Genesis 25:15; these troops or companies were travelling ones, either that travelled to Tema, or that went from thence to other places for merchandise, see Isaiah 21:13; these, as they passed along in their caravans, as the Turks their successors now do, looked at those places where in the wintertime they observed large waters frozen over, and covered with snow, and expected to have been supplied from thence in the summer season, for the extinguishing of their thirst:

the companies of Sheba waited for them: another people in Arabia, which went in companies through the deserts, where being in great want of water for their refreshment, waited patiently till they came to those places, where they hoped to find water to relieve them, which they had before marked in the wintertime.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The troops of Tema looked - That is, looked for the streams of water. On the situation of Tema, see Notes, Job 2:11. This was the country of Eliphaz, and the image would be well understood by him. The figure is one of exquisite beauty. It means that the caravans from Tema, in journeying through the desert, looked for those streams. They came with an expectation of finding the means of allaying their thirst. When they came there they were disappointed, for the waters had disappeared. Reiske, however, renders this, “Their tracks (the branchings of the flood) tend toward Tema;” - a translation which the Hebrew will bear, but the usual version is more correct, and is more elegant.

The companies of Sheba waited for them - The “Sheba” here referred to was probably in the southern part of Arabia; see the notes at Isaiah 45:14. The idea is, that the caravans from that part of Arabia came and looked for a supply of water, and were disappointed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 6:19. The troops of Tema looked — The caravans coming from Tema are represented as arriving at those places where it was well known torrents did descend from the mountains, and they were full of expectation that here they could not only slake their thirst, but fill their girbas or water-skins; but when they arrive, they find the waters totally dissipated and lost. In vain did the caravans of Sheba wait for them; they did not reappear: and they were confounded, because they had hoped to find here refreshment and rest.


 
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