Job 6:12

Job 6:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
• New International Version (NIV)Do I have the strength of stone? Is my flesh bronze?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh bronze?

Context of Job 6:12

10Then I would still have consolation, And I would jump for joy amid unsparing pain, That I have not denied or hidden the words of the Holy One. 11What strength do I have left, that I should wait [and hope]? And what is ahead of me, that I should be patient and endure? Is my strength and endurance that of stones, Or is my flesh made of bronze? 13Is it that I have no help within myself, And that success and wisdom have been driven from me? 14“For the despairing man there should be kindness from his friend; So that he does not abandon (turn away from) the fear of the Almighty.

Job 6:12 word by word

אִם־כֹּ֣חַ אֲבָנִ֣ים כֹּחִ֑י אִֽם־בְּשָׂרִ֥י נָחֽוּשׁ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• my strengthכֹּחַkôach kôach · strengthH3581
• of stonesאֶ֫בֶן'eben · stoneH68
• my fleshבָּשָׂרbâώâr · fleshH1320
• of brassנָחוּשׁnâchûsh · bronzeH5153

Cross-references for Job 6:12

• Job 40:18His bones are tubes of bronze; His limbs are like bars of iron.
• Job 41:24His heart is as hard as a stone, Indeed, as solid as a lower millstone.

Commentaries on Job 6:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Is my strength the strength of stones? - I am neither a rock, nor is my flesh brass, that I can endure all these calamities. This is a proverbial saying, and exists in all countries. Cicero says, Non enim est e saxo sculptus, aut e Robore dolatus Homo; habet corpus, habet animum; movetur mente, movetur sensibus. "For man is not chiselled out of the rock, nor hewn out of the oak; he has a body, and he has a soul; the one is actuated by intellect, the other…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Is my strength the strength of stones? - That is, like a rampart or fortification made of stones, or like a craggy rock that can endure assaults made upon it. A rock will bear the beatings of the tempest, and resist the floods, but how can frail man do it? The idea of Job is, that he had no strength to bear up against these accumulated trials; that he was afraid that he should be left to sink under them, and to complain of God; and that his friends were…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-13Verses 8-13 Job had desired death as the happy end of his miseries. For this, Eliphaz had reproved him, but he asks for it again with more vehemence than before. It was very rash to speak thus of God destroying him. Who, for one hour, could endure the wrath of the Almighty, if he let loose his hand against him? Let us rather say with David, O spare me a little. Job grounds his comfort upon the testimony of his conscience, that he had been, in some degree…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-30Job responds by criticizing his counselors and questioning God (chapters 6 and 7). He explains his intense words by indicating his deep "grief" or "anguish" (6:2–3; 7:11). Job states that Eliphaz has not provided comfort or sympathy as a friend. Instead, Eliphaz chose to argue about out of date religious or theological ideas.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. Disease had so attacked him that his strength would need to be hard as a stone, and his flesh like brass, not to sink under it. But he has only flesh, like other men. It must, therefore, give way; so that the hope of restoration suggested by Eliphaz is vain (see on Job 5:11).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 6:12

• Afflictions and Adversities

In the dictionaries

• Arguing
• Arrow
• Conceal
• Harden
• Sorrowful
• Terror
• Maid; Maiden
• Papyrus

Commentaries on Job 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings