Job 6:19

The troops of Tema looked— Mr. Heath so translates this verse, as to introduce the speaker using an animated prosopopoeia, or addressing himself to the travellers: Look for them ye troops of Tema, ye travellers of Sheba, expect them earnestly. This gives great life to the poetry, and sets a very beautiful image before the eye: the travellers wasting their time, depending on those torrents for water; but when they come thither, how great the disappointment! They are dried up; Job 6:20. The beginning of the 21st verse should be rendered, so now, ye are nothing. Mr. Peters observes of this simile, that there is not a more apt one in Homer or Milton, nor one more finely wrought up into a picture. See Jeremiah 14:2.