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Job 6:12
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Is my strength that of stone,or my flesh made of bronze?
Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?
Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?
I do not have the strength of stone; my flesh is not bronze.
Is my strength like that of stones? or is my flesh made of bronze?
"Is my strength and endurance that of stones, Or is my flesh made of bronze?
"Is my strength the strength of stones, Or is my flesh bronze?
Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?
Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brasse?
Is my strength the strength of stones,Or is my flesh bronze?
Is my strength like that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze?
Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh made of bronze?
Is my strength the strength of stones? is my flesh of brass?
I am not strong like a rock. My body is not made from bronze.
Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?
Am I made of stone? Is my body bronze?
Or is my strength like the strength of stones? Or is my flesh bronze?
Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh bronze?
Is my strength the strength of stones? Or, is my flesh made of brasse?
Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?
Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh brass?
Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my fleshe of brasse?
Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brasse?
Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
Nethir my strengthe is the strengthe of stoonus, nether my fleisch is of bras.
Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of bronze?
[Is] my strength the strength of stones? or [is] my flesh of brass?
Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh bronze?
Do I have the strength of a stone? Is my body made of bronze?
Do I have the strength of stones? Is my flesh brass?
Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?
Is my strength, the strength of stones? Or is, my flesh, of bronze?
My strength is not the strength of stones, nor is my flesh of brass.
Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?
Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh brazen?
"Is my strength the strength of stones, Or is my flesh bronze?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
of brass: Heb. brasen, Job 40:18, Job 41:24
Reciprocal: Exodus 38:2 - brass
Cross-References
More and more people were born, until finally they spread all over the earth. Some of their daughters were so beautiful that supernatural beings came down and married the ones they wanted.
Then the Lord said, "I won't let my life-giving breath remain in anyone forever. No one will live for more than one hundred twenty years."
The children of the supernatural beings who had married these women became famous heroes and warriors. They were called Nephilim and lived on the earth at that time and even later.
The Lord saw how bad the people on earth were and that everything they thought and planned was evil.
But the Lord was pleased with Noah,
So he told Noah: Cruelty and violence have spread everywhere. Now I'm going to destroy the whole earth and all its people.
Get some good lumber and build a boat. Put rooms in it and cover it with tar inside and out.
Make it four hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.
Build a roof on the boat and leave a space of about eighteen inches between the roof and the sides. Make the boat three stories high and put a door on one side.
I'm going to send a flood that will destroy everything that breathes! Nothing will be left alive.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[Is] my strength the strength of stones?.... Is it like such especially which are foundation and corner stones that support a building? or like a stone pillar, that will bear a prodigious weight? no, it is not:
or [is] my flesh of brass? is it made of brass? or is it like to brass for hardness, or for sustaining any weight laid on it? it is not; and, therefore, it cannot bear up under the ponderous load of afflictions on it, but must sink and fail; it is but flesh and blood, and that flesh like grass, weak and feeble; and, therefore, death is better than life laden with such an insupportable burden.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Is my strength the strength of stones? - That is, like a rampart or fortification made of stones, or like a craggy rock that can endure assaults made upon it. A rock will bear the beatings of the tempest, and resist the floods, but how can frail man do it? The idea of Job is, that he had no strength to bear up against these accumulated trials; that he was afraid that he should be left to sink under them, and to complain of God; and that his friends were not to wonder if his strength gave way, and he uttered the language of complaint.
Or is my flesh of brass? - Margin, “brazen.” The comparison used here is not uncommon. So Cicero, Aca. Qu. iv. 31, says, Non enim est e saxo sculptus, ant e robore dolatus homo; habet corpus, habet animum; movetur mente, movetur sensibus: - “for man is not chiselled out of the rock, nor cut from a tree; he has a body, he has a soul; he is actuated by mind, he is swayed by senses.” So Theocritus, in his description of Amycus, Idyll. xxii. 47:
Στήθεα δ ̓ ἐσφαίρωτο πελώρια και πλατὺ νῶτον,
Σαρκὶ σιδαρείῃ σφυρήλακος οἷα κολασσός.
Stēthea d' esfairōto pelōria kai platu nōton,
Sarki sidareiē sfurēlakos hoia kolossos.
Round as to his vast breast and broad back, and with iron flesh, he is as if a colossus formed with a hammer - So in Homer the expression frequently occurs - σιδήρειον ἦτορ sidēreion ētor - an iron heart - to denote courage. And so, according to Schultens, it has come to be a proverb, οὐκ ἀπὸ δρυὸς, οὐκ ἀπο πέτρης ouk apo druos, ouk apo petrēs - not from a tree, not from a rock. The meaning of Job is plain. He had flesh like others. His muscles, and nerves, and sinews, could not bear a constant force applied to them, as if they were made of brass or iron. They must give way; and he apprehended that he would sink under these sorrows, and be left to use language that might dishonor God. At all events, he felt that these great sorrows justified the strong expressions which he had already employed.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 6:12. Is my strength the strength of stones? — I am neither a rock, nor is my flesh brass, that I can endure all these calamities. This is a proverbial saying, and exists in all countries. Cicero says, Non enim est e saxo sculptus, aut e ROBORE dolatus HOMO; habet corpus, habet animum; movetur mente, movetur sensibus. "For man is not chiselled out of the rock, nor hewn out of the oak; he has a body, and he has a soul; the one is actuated by intellect, the other by the senses." Quaest. Acad. iv. 31. So Homer, where he represents Apollo urging the Trojans to attack the Greeks: -
Νεμεσησε δ' Απολλων,
Περγαμου εκκατιδων· Τρωεσσι δε κεκλετ' αυσας·
Ορνυσθ', ἱπποδαμοι Τρωες, μηδ' εικετε χαρμης
Αργειοις· επει ου σφιλιθος χρως, ουδε σιδηρος,
Χαλκον ανασχεσθαι ταμεσιχροα βαλλομενοισιν.
ILLIAD, lib. iv., ver. 507.
But Phoebus now from Ilion's towering height
Shines forth reveal'd, and animates the fight.
Trojans, be bold, and force to force oppose;
Your foaming steeds urge headlong on the foes!
Nor are their bodies ROCKS, nor ribb'd with STEEL;
Your weapons enter, and your strokes they feel.
POPE.
These are almost the same expressions as those in Job.
