Job 6:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Job 40:18 : 18 His bones are as strong pieces of bronze; his bones are like bars of iron.
  • Job 41:24 : 24 His heart is as hard as a stone; yes, as hard as a lower millstone.

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  • Job 6:10-11
    2 verses
    85%

    10Then I should still have comfort; yes, 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 my end, that I should prolong my life?

  • 13Is not my help within me? And is wisdom driven quite from me?

  • 18His bones are as strong pieces of bronze; his bones are like bars of iron.

  • 4My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has broken my bones.

  • 10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • 2Indeed, how might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age has perished?

  • 14Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?

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

  • Job 40:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8Will you also annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

    9Do you have an arm like God, or can you thunder with a voice like him?

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

  • 6Will he contend with me in his great power? No; but he would strengthen me.

  • 26My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

  • 2Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is melted from the stone.

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

  • Job 10:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5Are Your days as the days of man? Are Your years as man's days,

    6That You inquire after my iniquity and search after my sin?

  • 10My heart pants, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.

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

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

  • 27He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.

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

  • Job 30:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18By the great force of my disease my garment is changed: it binds me about like the collar of my coat.

    19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

  • 22Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and let my arm be broken at the bone.

  • 12Am I a sea, or a monster, that you set a watch over me?

  • 5Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cling 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 you should magnify him, and that you should set your 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 within me.

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

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

  • 24If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'

  • 12Why were there knees to receive me? Or why breasts that I should nurse?

  • 6Is not this your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the integrity of your ways?

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

  • 2For you are the God of my strength; why do you cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • 3LORD, what is man, that you take knowledge of him! Or the son of man, that you make account of him!

  • 2How have you helped him who is without power? How have you saved the arm that has no strength?

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

  • 23The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on him and cannot be moved.

  • 11You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have fenced me with bones and sinews.

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

  • 8I am feeble and severely broken; I have roared because of the disquiet of my heart.

  • 13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • 3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned like a hearth.

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