Job 6 · Verse 13

Job 6:13

Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
Job 6:13, King James Version

Job 6:13 in other translations

BSBIs there any help within me now that success is driven from me?
WEBIsn’t it that I have no help in me, that wisdom is driven away from me?
ASVIs it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?
YLTIs not my help with me, And substance driven from me?
DARBYIs it not that there is no help in me, and soundness is driven away from me?
BBEI have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.
WebsterIs not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

What does Job 6:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
13. Is not my help in me?--The interrogation is better omitted. "There is no help in me!" For "wisdom," "deliverance" is a better rendering. "And deliverance is driven quite from me."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 13 Is not my help in me? - My help is all in myself; and, alas! that is perfect weakness: and my subsistence, תושיה tushiyah, all that is real, stable, and permanent, is driven quite from me. My friends have forsaken me, and I am abandoned to myself; my property is all taken away, and I have no resources left. I believe Job neither said, nor intended to say, as some interpreters have it, Reason is utterly driven from me. Surely there is no mark in this chapter of his being deranged, or at all impaired in his intellect.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 6:8-13

Job had desired death as the happy end of his miseries. For this, Eliphaz had reproved him, but he asks for it again with more vehemence than before. It was very rash to speak thus of God destroying him. Who, for one hour, could endure the wrath of the Almighty, if he let loose his hand against him? Let us rather say with David, O spare me a little. Job grounds his comfort upon the testimony of his conscience, that…

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Job 6:13 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הַאִ֬םha.'Im¿ ifH518
אֵ֣ין'einnotH369
עֶזְרָתִ֣י'ez.ra.Ti[is] help myH5833
בִ֑יViin myself
וְ֝תֻשִׁיָּ֗הve.tu.shi.Yahand sound wisdomH8454
נִדְּחָ֥הni.de.Chahit has been banishedH5080
מִמֶּֽנִּי\׃mi.Me.nifrom meH4480

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 6:13

  • 2 Corinthians 1:12

    For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

  • Job 26:2

    How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?

  • Job 12:2-3

    No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

  • Job 19:28

    But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

  • Job 13:2

    What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

  • Galatians 6:4

    But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Is not my.
19:28; 2Co 1:12; Ga 6:4
and is wisdom.
12:2,3; 13:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 6:12

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

  • Job 6:13

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

  • Job 6:14

    To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

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Job 6:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		¿No me ayudo cuanto puedo, y el poder me falta del todo?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		N’est-ce pas qu’il n’y a point de secours en moi, et que toute capacité est chassée loin de moi?
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ist es nicht also, daß keine Hülfe in mir, und jede Kraft aus mir vertrieben ist?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ecce non est auxilium mihi in me, et necessarii quoque mei recesserunt a me.