Job 6:13
Behold there is no help for me in myself, and my familiar friends also are departed from me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
In Context
12My strength is not the strength of stones, nor is my flesh of brass.
14He that taketh away mercy from his friend, forsaketh the fear of the Lord.
Cross References
Job 12:2Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you?
Job 16:7But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.
Job 26:2Whose helper art thou? is it of him that is weak? and dost thou hold up the arm of him that has no strength?
Galatians 6:4But let every one prove his own work, and so he shall have glory in himself only, and not in another.
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 →