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Job 6:16–17

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From melting ice and snow

cascading out of the mountains,

But by midsummer they’re dry,

gullies baked dry in the sun.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

which are dark with ice,

and where the snow hides itself.

When they melt, they disappear;

when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

when darkened by thawing ice

and swollen with melting snow,

but that stop flowing in the dry season,

and in the heat vanish from their channels.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

and become darkened because of ice,

and the snow melts into them.

The wadis evaporate in warm weather;

they disappear from their channels in hot weather.

NLTNew Living Translation

when it is swollen with ice and melting snow.

But when the hot weather arrives, the water disappears.

The brook vanishes in the heat.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

which are growing dark because of ice upon them,

it will pile up snow.

In time they dry up, they disappear;

when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

KJV 1900King James Version

Which are blackish by reason of the ice,

And wherein the snow is hid:

What time they wax warm, they vanish:

When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.