Job 6:13

Job 6:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
• New International Version (NIV)Do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Have I any help in me, when resource is driven from me?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Is my help not within me? And is success driven from me?

Context of Job 6:13

11But I don’t have the strength to endure. I have nothing to live for. 12Do I have the strength of a stone? Is my body made of bronze? No, I am utterly helpless, without any chance of success. 14“One should be kind to a fainting friend, but you accuse me without any fear of the Almighty. 15My brothers, you have proved as unreliable as a seasonal brook that overflows its banks in the spring

Job 6:13 word by word

הַאִ֬ם אֵ֣ין עֶזְרָתִ֣י בִ֑י וְ֝תֻשִׁיָּ֗ה נִדְּחָ֥ה מִמֶּֽנִּי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• not my helpעֶזְרָה‛ezrâh ‛ezrâth · helpH5833
• in me? and is wisdomתּוּשִׁיָּהtûshîyâh tûshîyâh · wisdomH8454
• driven quiteנָדַחnâdach · to banishH5080

Cross-references for Job 6:13

• Job 19:28“How dare you go on persecuting me, saying, ‘It’s his own fault’?
• 2 Corinthians 1:12We can say with confidence and a clear conscience that we have lived with a God-given holiness and sincerity in all our dealings. We have depended on God’s grace, not on our own human wisdom. That is how we have conducted ourselves before the world, and especially toward you.
• Galatians 6:4Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else.
• Job 12:2“You people really know everything, don’t you? And when you die, wisdom will die with you!
• Job 13:2I know as much as you do. You are no better than I am.

Commentaries on Job 6:13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13Is not my help in me? - My help is all in myself; and, alas! that is perfect weakness: and my subsistence, תושיה tushiyah, all that is real, stable, and permanent, is driven quite from me. My friends have forsaken me, and I am abandoned to myself; my property is all taken away, and I have no resources left. I believe Job neither said, nor intended to say, as some interpreters have it, Reason is utterly driven from me. Surely there is no mark in this…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13Is not my help in me? - This would be better rendered in an affirmative manner, or as an exclamation. The interrogative form of the previous verses need not be continued in this. The sense is, “alas! there is no help in me!” That is, “I have no strength; I must give up under these sorrows in despair.” So it is rendered by Jerome, Rosenmuller, Good, Noyes, and others. And is wisdom quite driven from me? - This, also, should be read as an affirmation…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. 1313. Is not my help in me?--The interrogation is better omitted. "There is no help in me!" For "wisdom," "deliverance" is a better rendering. "And deliverance is driven quite from me."Read the comment

Topics related to Job 6:13

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Self-Righteousness

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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