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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Job 6:13

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.

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See also Job 6:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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!...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 6-7 JOB'S ANSWER _ 1. His Despair justified by the greatness of his suffering (Job 6:1)_ 2. He requests to be cut off (Job 6:8) 3. He reproacheth his friends (Job 6:14) 4. The misery of...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Job in his reply deals first of all with the charge of impatience. He catches up the word used by Eliphaz (Job 5:2), and declares that his impatience does but balance his calamity (Job 6:1 f.). The dr...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WISDOM. stability. See note on Proverbs 2:7....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    With more calmness Job proceeds to describe his hopeless condition, carrying out in this indirect way his defence of his despair....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Job 6:1-13. Job defends the violence of his complaints and his despair Eliphaz had made no reference directly to sin on Job's part; but he drew dark pictures of the evilness of human nature before th...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This verse reads something as follows, Is not my help within me gone, And recovery driven away from me? Both clauses seem to refer to the exhaustion caused by his disease. He feels that all resourc...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IS NOT MY HELP IN ME? &C.— Or, _because my help is not at hand, is wisdom therefore departed far from me?_ Houbigant. Heath renders it, _Do not I find that I cannot in the least help myself, and that...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. In his wasted condition, death is desirable. (Job 6:8-13) TEXT 6:8-13 8 OH THAT I MIGHT HAVE MY REQUEST; And that God would grant _me_ THE THING THAT I LONG FOR! 9 Even that it would please God...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _IS NOT MY HELP IN ME? AND IS WISDOM DRIVEN QUITE FROM ME?_ Is not my help in me? The interrogation is better omitted. 'There is no help in me!' For "wisdom," deliverance х_ TUWSHIYAAH_ (H8454)] is a...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    6:13 soundness (i-12) Or 'capacity.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'Is it not that I have no help in me, and sound wisdom is driven quite from me?' He is exhausted and without resource. 14-30. Job complains of the lack of sympathy and false conclusions of the fri...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST SPEECH OF JOB (JOB 6:7) 1-13. Job, smarting under the remarks of Eliphaz, which he feels are not appropriate to his case, renews and justifies his complaints. He bemoans the heaviness of Go...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 6 JOB REPLIES TO ELIPHAZ’S...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job explained that his body and his spirit were weak. Job used to be a great man, whom everybody respected (Job 1:3; Job 29:1-10; Job 29:21-25). He was a leader of his people. But now, Job needed help...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IS NOT MY HELP IN ME? — It is in passages such as these that the actual meaning of Job is so obscure and his words so difficult. The sense may be, “Is it not that I have no help in me, and wisdom is d...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַ אִ֬ם אֵ֣ין עֶזְרָתִ֣י בִ֑י וְ֝ תֻשִׁיָּ֗ה

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1; Job 7:1 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own heart because no channel outside self is provided for the hot strea...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “A DECEITFUL BROOK” Job 6:1 The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of his pain,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Job's answer is a magnificent and terrible outcry. First, he speaks of his pain as a protest against the method of Eliphaz. His reply is not to the deduction which Eliphaz' argument suggested, but rat...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    [Is] not my (i) help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? (i) Have I not sought to help myself as much as was possible?...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Myself. "Have I not placed my trust in him?" God alone. (Haydock) --- All my other friends have abandoned me, ver. 15. (Calmet) --- Can they wonder if I express my grief? (Haydock) --- Familiar. Hebr...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (11) What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? (12) Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass? (13) Is not my help in me? and i...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    Job's Answer to Eliphaz I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we took a look at Eliphaz' speech to Job. 1. Eliphaz based the authority for what he said to Job upon the visitation of an angel. 2. But, we al...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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 b...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Job 6:13 [Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? Ver. 13. _Is not my help in me?_] Have I not something within wherewith to sustain me amidst all my sorrows, viz. the testimony of...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Is not my help in me?_ Though I have no strength in my body, or outward man, yet I have some help and support within me, or in my inward man, even a consciousness of my sincerity toward God, notwiths...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Is not my help in me, rather, "Is not the nothingness of my help with me," that is, Am I not utterly helpless? AND IS WISDOM DRIVEN QUITE FROM ME? His well-being, his prospect of strength in the futur...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB DEFENDS HIS DESIRE FOR DEATH...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ (vv.1-30) It is remarkable that Job, being in the painful condition he was, was still able to reply in such capable and stirring language to Eliphaz. He knew that Eliphaz had...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 destro...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Though I have no strength in my body, or outward man, yet I have some help and support within me, or in my inward man, even the conscience of my own innocency and piety, notwithstanding all your bitte...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 6:13 help H5833 success H8454 driven H5080 (H8738) Is not my - Job 19:28; 2 Cor

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer to Eliphaz. His appeal for pity. CHARACTERS: God, Eliphaz, Job. CONCLUSION: No one can judge another justly without much prayer for divine guidance. Affliction does not necess...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 6:4. _The poison_ of the arrows absorbed his spirits. In 1822, when Campbel the missionary travelled in South Africa, a bushman shot one of his men in the back with a poisoned arrow. He languished...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _But Job answered and said._ JOB’S ANSWER TO ELIPHAZ We must come upon grief in one of two ways and Job seems to have come upon grief in a way that is to be deprecated. He came upon it late in life....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 6:1 Job responds to Eliphaz’s words of “comfort.” ⇐ ⇔...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ I. Justifies his complaint (Job 6:2). “O that my grief were thoroughly weighed,” &c. Job’s case neither apprehended nor appreciated by his friends. Desires fervently that his...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Job 6:1. and 7. contain Job's reply to Eliphaz. In Job 6:1. he confines himself to three points: (1) a justification of his "grief"—_i.e._ of his vexation and impatience (Job 6:1); (2)

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So Job responds to him and he says, Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamities laid in the balances together! (Job 6:1-2) Now, of course, picturesque, you got to see it. In those days...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 1:12; Galatians 6:4; Job 12:2; Job 12:3; Job 13:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    What, &c. — If my outward condition be helpless and hopeless? Have I therefore lost my understanding, cannot I judge whether it is more desirable for me to live or to die, whether I be an hypocrite or...

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