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Job 6:12 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of bronze? "
Job 6:12
Verse in Context
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10 Let it still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
11 What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
12 Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of bronze?
13 Isn’t it that I have no help in me, that wisdom is driven away from me?
14 “To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
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Job 6:1
"Then Job answered,"
Job 6:2
"“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!"
Job 6:3
"For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash."
Job 6:4
"For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me."
Job 6:5
"Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?"
Job 6:6
"Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?"
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