The Meaning of Job 6:16 Explained

Job 6:16

KJV: Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

YLT: That are black because of ice, By them doth snow hide itself.

Darby: Which are turbid by reason of the ice, in which the snow hideth itself:

ASV: Which are black by reason of the ice, And wherein the snow hideth itself:

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Which are blackish  by reason of the ice,  [and] wherein the snow  is hid: 

What does Job 6:16 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 6:1-30 - "a Deceitful Brook"
The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of his pain, Job 6:4, or they would have seen it to be as natural as the braying and lowing of hungry and suffering beasts, Job 6:5. A man would not take insipid food without complaint; how much more reason had he to complain whose tears were his meat day and night, Job 6:6-7! So bitter were his pains that he would welcome death, and exult in the throes of dissolution, Job 6:8-10. It could hardly be otherwise than that he should succumb, since he had only the ordinary strength of mortals, and both strength and wisdom were exhausted, Job 6:11-13.
Job next characterizes the assistance of his friends as winter brooks, turbid with melted ice and snow, which bitterly disappoint the travelers who had hoped to find water, and perish beside the dry heaps of stones, Job 6:17. They had found fault with his words, which, in the circumstances, were not a true index to his heart, Job 6:26; but a look into his face would have sufficed to attest his innocence of the sin of which they accused him, Job 6:28-30.
From these complaints of faithlessness and disappointment we turn to Him who, having been made perfect through suffering, has become "the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him," Hebrews 5:9. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 6

1  Job shows that his complaints are not causeless
8  He wishes for death, wherein he is assured of comfort
14  He reproves his friends of unkindness

What do the individual words in Job 6:16 mean?

which are dark because of the ice [And] into which vanishes the snow
הַקֹּדְרִ֥ים מִנִּי־ קָ֑רַח עָ֝לֵ֗ימוֹ יִתְעַלֶּם־ שָֽׁלֶג

הַקֹּדְרִ֥ים  which  are  dark 
Parse: Article, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural
Root: קָדַר  
Sense: to mourn, be dark.
מִנִּי־  because 
Parse: Preposition
Root: מִן 
Sense: from, out of, on account of, off, on the side of, since, above, than, so that not, more than.
קָ֑רַח  of  the  ice 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: קֶרַח  
Sense: frost, ice, ice crystal.
עָ֝לֵ֗ימוֹ  [And]  into  which 
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine plural
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
יִתְעַלֶּם־  vanishes 
Parse: Verb, Hitpael, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: עָלַם  
Sense: to conceal, hide, be hidden, be concealed, be secret.
שָֽׁלֶג  the  snow 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: שֶׁלֶג 
Sense: snow.

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