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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?
I am not strong as stone or 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
In time, when men began to multiply on earth, and daughters were born to them,
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were attractive; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
Adonai said, "My Spirit will not live in human beings forever, for they too are flesh; therefore their life span is to be 120 years."
The N'filim were on the earth in those days, and also afterwards, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; these were the ancient heroes, men of renown.
(Maftir) Adonai saw that the people on earth were very wicked, that all the imaginings of their hearts were always of evil only.
But Noach found grace in the sight of Adonai . Haftarah B'resheet: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 42:5–43:10 (A); 42:5–21 (S) B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah B'resheet: Mattityahu (Matthew) 1:1–17; 19:3–9; Mark 10:1–12; Luke 3:23–38; Yochanan (John) 1:1–18; 1 Corinthians 6:15–20; 15:35–58; Romans 5:12–21; Ephesians 5:21–32; Colossians 1:14–17; 1 Timothy 2:11–15; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 1:1–3; 3:7–4:11; 11:1–7; 2 Kefa (2 Peter) 3:3–14; Revelation 21:1–5; 22:1–5 Here is the history of Noach. In his generation, Noach was a man righteous and wholehearted; Noach walked with God. Noach fathered three sons, Shem, Ham and Yefet. The earth was corrupt before God, the earth was filled with violence. God saw the earth, and, yes, it was corrupt; for all living beings had corrupted their ways on the earth. God said to Noach, "The end of all living beings has come before me, for because of them the earth is filled with violence. I will destroy them along with the earth. Make yourself an ark of gofer-wood; you are to make the ark with rooms and cover it with pitch both outside and inside. Here is how you are to build it: the length of the ark is to be 450 feet, its width seventy-five feet and its height forty-five feet. You are to make an opening for daylight in the ark eighteen inches below its roof. Put a door in its side; and build it with lower, second and third decks. "Then I myself will bring the flood of water over the earth to destroy from under heaven every living thing that breathes; everything on earth will be destroyed. But I will establish my covenant with you; you will come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife and your sons' wives with you. "From everything living, from each kind of living being, you are to bring two into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they are to be male and female. Of each kind of bird, each kind of livestock, and each kind of animal creeping on the ground, two are to come to you, so that they can be kept alive. Also take from all the kinds of food that are eaten, and collect it for yourself; it is to be food for you and for them." This is what Noach did; he did all that God ordered him to do.
God said to Noach, "The end of all living beings has come before me, for because of them the earth is filled with violence. I will destroy them along with the earth.
Make yourself an ark of gofer-wood; you are to make the ark with rooms and cover it with pitch both outside and inside.
Here is how you are to build it: the length of the ark is to be 450 feet, its width seventy-five feet and its height forty-five feet.
You are to make an opening for daylight in the ark eighteen inches below its roof. Put a door in its side; and build it with lower, second and third decks.
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.
