King James Version

Job 6:18

The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

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יִ֭לָּ֣פְתוּyilafetvturn asideלָפַתverb, niphal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “turn aside”, an unfinished actionH3943properly, to bend, i.e. (by implication) to clasp; also (reflexively) to turn around or asidetake hold, turn aside (self).אָרְח֣וֹתarechotmannerאֹרַחnoun, common, both genders, plural, construct — “manner”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH734a well-trodden road (literally or figuratively); also a caravanmanner, path, race, rank, traveller, troop, (by-, high-) way.דַּרְכָּ֑םdarkamalongדֶּרֶךְnoun, common, both genders, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “along”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverbalong, away, because of, [phrase] by, conversation, custom, (east-) ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-) way(-side), whither(-soever).יַעֲל֖וּyaalvascend upעָלָהverb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “ascend up”, an unfinished actionH5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurativearise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, [phrase] shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make t…בַתֹּ֣הוּvatohvin vainתֹּהוּpreposition, with the article, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “in vain”, the ordinary formH8414a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vainconfusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.וְיֹאבֵֽדוּveyovedvand destroyאָבַדconjunction, verb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “and destroy”, an unfinished actionH6properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)break, destroy(-uction), [phrase] not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, [idiom] and surely, take, be undone, [idiom] utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

The paths of their way do wind, they go up into the waste, and are lost.

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American Standard Version (1901)

The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.

Young’s Literal Translation

Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.

World English Bible

The caravans that travel beside them turn away. They go up into the waste, and perish.

Darby Translation

They wind about in the paths of their course, they go off into the waste and perish.

Douay-Rheims

The paths of their steps are entangled: they shall walk in vain, and shall perish.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

The paths of their way do wind, they go up into the waste, and are lost.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

Thus I also have been deserted of all; and I am ruined, and become an outcast.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

οὕτω κᾀγὼ κατελείφηθν ὑπὸ πάντων, ἀπωλόμην δὲ καὶ ἔξοικος ἐγενόμην.