What time they wax warm When the weather grows milder, and the frost and snow are dissolved; they vanish נצמתו, nitsmathu, ex cisi sunt, they are cut off, having no fountain from whence to draw a supply. When it is hot In the hot season, when waters are most refreshing and necessary; they are consumed out of their place The place where the traveller expected to find them to his comfort; but they are gone he knows not whither. The paths of their way are turned aside That is, the courses of those waters are changed; they are gone out of their channel, flowing hither and thither, till they be quite consumed, as it here follows. There “is a noble climax,” as Heath observes, in these last three verses; “a most poetical description of the torrents in the hot climates. By extraordinary cold they are frozen over, but the sun no sooner exerts its power than they melt; they are exhaled by the heat, till the stream for smallness is diverted into many channels; it yet lasts a little way, but is soon quite evaporated and lost.”
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Job 6:17-18
17 What time they wax warm, they vanish:d when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.