Job 6:13

Is it not that I have no help in me, and that wisdom is driven quite from me?

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

In Context

12Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?

14To him who is ready to faint, kindness [should be] from his friend, even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

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Cross References

Job 12:2No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

Job 16:7But now he has made me weary. Thou have made desolate all my company.

Job 26:2How thou have helped him who is without power! How thou have saved the arm that has no strength!

Galatians 6:4But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have the boast in himself alone and not in the other man.

Matthew Henry on Job 6:9-14

8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! 10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. 11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? 12 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass? 13 Is not my help in me?… Read the whole commentary →

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