Job 6:13

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?

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

14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

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

    For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

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  • Job 26:2

    How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?

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  • Job 12:2–3

    No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

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  • Job 19:28

    But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

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  • Job 13:2

    What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

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  • Galatians 6:4

    But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

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