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Job 6:13
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Since I cannot help myself,the hope for success has been banished from me.
Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?
Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
Have I any help in me, when resource is driven from me?
I have no power to help myself, because success has been taken away from me.
Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?
"Is it that I have no help within myself, And that success and wisdom have been driven from me?
"Is it that my help is not within me, And that a good outcome is driven away from me?
Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?
Is it not so, that there is in me no helpe? and that strength is taken from me?
Is it that there is no help within me,And that the success of sound wisdom is driven from me?
Is there any help within me, now that success is driven from me?
and I have finally reached the end of my rope.
Clearly, I have no help in myself; common sense has been driven from me.
Is it not that there is no help in me, and soundness is driven away from me?
Behold, his help is not in me, and his salvation is far off from me.
I have no strength left to save myself; there is nowhere I can turn for help.
Indeed, my help is not in me, and any success is driven from me.
Is not my help within me? And is wisdom driven from me?
Am I able to helpe my self? Is not my strength gone fro me,
Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?
I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.
Is it not so that there is in me no helpe? & that my substaunce is taken from me?
Is it that I have no help in me, and that sound wisdom is driven quite from me?
Is not my helpe in me? and is wisedome driuen quite from me?
Or have I not trusted in him? but help is far from me.
Is it not that I have no help in me, and that effectual working is driven quite from me?
Lo! noon help is to me in me; also my meyneal frendis `yeden awey fro me.
Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?
[Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
Is my help not within me? And is success driven from me?
No, I am utterly helpless, without any chance of success.
I have no power to help myself, and a way out is far from me.
In truth I have no help in me, and any resource is driven from me.
Is there any help at all in me? Is not, abiding success, driven from me?
Behold there is no help for me in myself, and my familiar friends also are departed from me.
In truth I have no help in me, and any resource is driven from me.
Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?
"Is it that my help is not within me, And that deliverance is driven from me?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Is not my: Job 19:28, 2 Corinthians 1:12, Galatians 6:4
and is wisdom: Job 12:2, Job 12:3, Job 13:2
Reciprocal: Job 26:3 - counselled
Cross-References
The number of people on earth continued to increase. When these people had daughters, the sons of God saw how beautiful they were. So they chose the women they wanted. They married them, and the women had their children. Then the Lord said, "People are only human. I will not let my Spirit be troubled by them forever. I will let them live only 120 years." During this time and also later, the Nephilim people lived in the land. They have been famous as powerful soldiers since ancient times.
The Lord was sorry that he had made people on the earth. It made him very sad in his heart.
So the Lord said, "I will destroy all the people I created on the earth. I will destroy every person and every animal and everything that crawls on the earth. And I will destroy all the birds in the air, because I am sorry that I have made them."
Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
When God looked at the earth, he saw that people had ruined it. Violence was everywhere, and it had ruined their life on earth.
In this way God wiped the earth clean—he destroyed every living thing on the earth—every human, every animal, everything that crawls, and every bird. All that was left was Noah and his family and the animals that were with him in the boat.
"Simeon and Levi are brothers. They are violent with their swords.
Babylon, you live near much water. You are rich with treasures, but your end as a nation has come. It is time for you to be destroyed.
He said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the Lord said to me, "The end has come to my people Israel. I will not ignore their sins anymore.
Noah was warned by God about things that he could not yet see. But he had faith and respect for God, so he built a large boat to save his family. With his faith, Noah showed that the world was wrong. And he became one of those who are made right with God through faith.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[Is] my help in me?.... Or "my defence" y, as some; is it not in my power to defend myself against the calumnies and reproaches cast upon me? it is; and, though one have no help in myself to bear my burdens, or extricate myself out of my difficulties, yet I have the testimony of a good conscience within me, that supports me; and I have the strength and force of reason and argument on my side, to defend me against all objectors:
and is wisdom driven from me? either sound doctrine, the law z, or, rather, the Gospel, the wisdom of God in a mystery, revealed in the words of the Holy One before mentioned; or wisdom in the hidden part, the fear of God, which is wisdom, true grace in the heart, which, when once implanted, can never be driven out; or natural reason and understanding, of which he was not bereaved; for, though his body was thus sorely afflicted, he retained his reasoning and intellectual faculties. The words, in connection with the former, may be read, "what, if help is not with me, is wisdom also driven quite from me?" a does it follow, because I am not able to help myself out of this afflicted and distressed condition in which I am, that I am deprived of my reason? or be it that I am such a weak impotent creature, and even distracted, as you take me to be, should I not then rather be pitied than insulted? so some b connect the words following.
y עזרתי בי "defensio mea penes me", Junius et Tremellius, Piscator. z תושיה "lex", Mercerus; so Peritsol. a So Cocceius and Schultens. b So De Dieu.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Is not my help in me? - This would be better rendered in an affirmative manner, or as an exclamation. The interrogative form of the previous verses need not be continued in this. The sense is, “alas! there is no help in me!” That is, “I have no strength; I must give up under these sorrows in despair.” So it is rendered by Jerome, Rosenmuller, Good, Noyes, and others.
And is wisdom quite driven from me? - This, also, should be read as an affirmation, “deliverance is driven from me.” The word rendered wisdom (תשׁיה tûshı̂yâh) means properly a setting upright; then help, deliverance; and then purpose, enterprise; see the notes at Job 5:12. Here it means that all hope of deliverance had fled, and that he was sinking in despair.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 6:13. 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.
