Job 6:12

American Standard Version (1901)

Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 40:18 : 18 His bones are [as] tubes of brass; His limbs are like bars of iron.
  • Job 41:24 : 24 His heart is as firm as a stone; Yea, firm as the nether millstone.

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  • Job 6:10-11
    2 verses
    85%

    10And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

    11What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?

  • 13Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?

  • 18His bones are [as] tubes of brass; His limbs are like bars of iron.

  • 4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

  • 10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

  • 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

  • 2Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

  • 14Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

  • 19If [we speak] of strength, lo, [he is] mighty! And if of justice, Who, [saith he], will summon me?

  • Job 40:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?

    9Or hast thou an arm like God? And canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

  • 18And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.

  • 6Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me.

  • 26My flesh and my heart faileth; [But] God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.

  • 2Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.

  • 12Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?

  • Job 10:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5Are thy days as the days of man, Or thy years as man's days,

    6That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, And searchest after my sin,

  • 10My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

  • 19Will thy cry avail, [that thou be] not in distress, Or all the forces of [thy] strength?

  • 4As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

  • 27He counteth iron as straw, [And] brass as rotten wood.

  • 15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

  • Job 30:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

    19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • 22Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.

  • 12Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?

  • 5By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

  • 20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • 17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,

  • 23He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days.

  • 18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

  • 1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

  • 4Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.

  • 24If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence;

  • 12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

  • 6Is not thy fear [of God] thy confidence, [And] the integrity of thy ways thy hope?

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    2Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled.

  • 2For thou art the God of my strength; Why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • 3Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

  • 2How hast thou helped him that is without power! How hast thou saved the arm that hath no strength!

  • 3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash.

  • 23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: They are firm upon him; They cannot be moved.

  • 11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews.

  • 5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.

  • 8I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

  • 13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • 3For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.

  • 9What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?