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Job 6:12

Job 6:12
Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 6:8-13

Ungoverned passion often grows more violent when it meets with some rebuke and check. The troubled sea rages most when it dashes against a rock. Job had been courting death, as that which would be the…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Unless his strength were that of stones or his flesh brass he could not hold out against the exhausting afflictions which he has to bear, or recover from them.

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