Job 6:12

World English Bible (2000)

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 like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.
  • Job 41:24 : 24 His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.

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  • Job 6:10-11
    2 verses
    85%

    10Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

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

  • 13Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

  • 18His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

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

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

  • 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • 2Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

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

  • 19If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'

  • Job 40:8-9
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    71%

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

    9Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

  • 18I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.

  • 6Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.

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

  • 2Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.

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

  • Job 10:5-6
    2 verses
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    5Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,

    6that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

  • 10My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

  • 19Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

  • 4As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

  • 27He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood.

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

  • Job 30:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

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

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

  • 12Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

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

  • 20Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • 17What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

  • 23He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

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

  • 1"My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

  • 4"Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

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

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

  • 6Isn't your piety your confidence? Isn't the integrity of your ways your hope?

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    2Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

  • 2For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • 3Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

  • 2"How 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 seas, therefore have my words been rash.

  • 23The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can't be moved.

  • 11You have 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 closes up, and breaks out afresh.

  • 8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

  • 13From on high has he 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 consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

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