Job 6:13

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

Related Commentaries of Job 6:13

Albert 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 vers...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

[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?
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 impatien...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? Is not my help in me? - My help is all in myself; and, alas! that is perfect weakness: an...
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...
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!...
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 j...
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 o...
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,...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1-30 ; Job 7:1-21 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own hea...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“A Deceitful Brook” Job 6:1-30 The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking ra...
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 d...
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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...
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 s...
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...
L. 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 s...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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 to destroy me;...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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...
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 apprehende...
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...
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 th...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 6:1-18 . and 7. contain Job's reply to Eliphaz. In Job 6:1-18 . he confines himself to three points: (1) a justification of...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Defends his Desire for Death
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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?...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 1:12 ; Galatians 6:4 ; Job 12:2 ; Job 12:3 ; Job 13:2 ; Job 19:28
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 desirab...

¹³ Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

Related Commentaries of Job 6:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 6:13