Bible Trivia Question

Job compares his friends' help to what unreliable natural phenomenon?


A crumbling mountain
A fleeting breeze
A setting sun
A dry stream

A dry stream

Job 6:15 - Job likens his friends’ comfort to a dry stream that disappears when needed most, accusing them of being unreliable in his time of suffering.

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