The Meaning of Job 6:20 Explained

Job 6:20

KJV: They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

YLT: They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come unto it and are confounded.

Darby: They are ashamed at their hope; they come thither, and are confounded.

ASV: They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came thither, and were confounded.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 6:20?

MEANING: What does Job 6:20 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 6:20 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 6:20?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

They were confounded  because they had hoped;  they came  thither, and were ashamed. 

What does Job 6:20 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 6:20 mean?

They are disappointed because they were confident they come there and are confused
בֹּ֥שׁוּ כִּֽי־ בָטָ֑ח בָּ֥אוּ‪‬ עָ֝דֶ֗יהָ וַיֶּחְפָּֽרוּ

בֹּ֥שׁוּ  They  are  disappointed 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: בֹּושׁ 
Sense: to put to shame, be ashamed, be disconcerted, be disappointed.
כִּֽי־  because 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: כִּי 
Sense: that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since.
בָטָ֑ח  they  were  confident 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: בָּטוּחַ 
Sense: to trust.
בָּ֥אוּ‪‬  they  come 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: בֹּוא 
Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.
וַיֶּחְפָּֽרוּ  and  are  confused 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: חָפַר  
Sense: to be ashamed, be confounded, be abashed, feel abashed.

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