Job Chapter 6 verse 13 Holy Bible
Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?
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I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.
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Is it not that there is no help in me, and soundness is driven away from me?
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Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
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Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
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Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?
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Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - Is not my help in me? rather, Is it not that I have no help in me? (Revised Version). Job feels that, instead of having exceptional strength of constitution to enable him to bear up against his exhausting malady, he is absolutely without strength. All his vital power is used up. There is no help in him. And is wisdom driven quite from me? rather, Is not soundness driven quite from me? Tushiyah seems to mean here "strength of constitution" - that internal soundness which resists the inroads of disease, and sometimes triumphs over the most serious maladies. Whatever reserve of this kind he may have possessed by nature, it is now, Job feels, altogether lost and gone from him.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) Is not my help in me?--It is in passages such as these that the actual meaning of Job is so obscure and his words so difficult. The sense may be, "Is it not that I have no help in me, and wisdom is driven quite from me?" or yet again, "Is it because there is no help in me that therefore wisdom is driven far from me?" as is the case by your reproaches and insinuations. (See especially Job 5:2; Job 5:27.)