Job 6:13
11 What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?
12 Is my strength like that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze?
Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?
14 A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
15 But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?
- KJV
- Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
- WEB
- Isn’t it that I have no help in me, that wisdom is driven away from me?
- ASV
- Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?
- DARBY
- Is it not that there is no help in me, and soundness is driven away from me?
- BLB
- [Is] there no help for me in me, when success has been taken away from me?
- ÅB
- Er jeg da ikke aldeles hjelpeløs? Er ikke all utsikt til frelse fratatt meg?
- OTB
- Er det noen hjelp i meg,
nå som suksess er drevet bort? - B1930
- Er jeg da ikke aldeles hjelpeløs? Er ikke all utsikt til frelse fratatt mig?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Corinthians 1:12
And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.
Read in contextJob 26:2
“How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
Read in contextJob 12:2–3
“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!
Read in contextJob 19:28
If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
Read in contextJob 13:2
What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
Read in contextGalatians 6:4
Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.
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