Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
wax warm—rather, "At the time when." ("But they soon wax") [UMBREIT]. "they become narrower (flow in a narrower bed), they are silent (cease to flow noisily); in the heat (of the sun) they are consumed or vanish out of their place. First the stream flows more narrowly—then it becomes silent and still; at length every trace of water disappears by evaporation under the hot sun" [UMBREIT].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Job 6:17:
Job 6:18
Job 11:16
Job 20:28
Song of Solomon 4:12
Isaiah 58:11
Micah 1:14
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