Job 6:12

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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 strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
  • Job 41:24 : 24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

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  • Job 6:10-11
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    10Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

    11What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

  • 13Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

  • 18His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones 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 grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • 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, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

  • 14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

  • 19If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

  • Job 40:8-9
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    8Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

    9Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

  • 18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

  • 6Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in 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 brass is molten out of the stone.

  • 12Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

  • Job 10:5-6
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    5Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

    6That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

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

  • 19Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

  • 4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

  • 27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

  • 15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

  • Job 30:18-19
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    18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: 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 mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

  • 12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

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

  • 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 thine heart upon him?

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

  • 18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

  • 1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

  • 4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

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

  • 12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

  • 6Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

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    2Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

  • 2For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • 3LORD, 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 savest thou the arm that hath no strength?

  • 3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

  • 23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

  • 11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

  • 5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

  • 8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

  • 13From above 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 are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

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