Job 6:13

What does Job 6:13 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 6:13 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Behold there is no help for me in myself, and my familiar friends also are departed from me.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Is it not that there is no help in me, and soundness is driven away from me?

Context

v.12Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?

v.13This passage

v.14To him that is ready to faint kindness should be showed from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Corinthians 1:12

    For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

  • Job 26:2

    How hast thou helped him that is without power! How hast thou saved the arm that hath no strength!

  • Galatians 6:4

    But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.

  • Job 13:2

    What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

  • Job 19:28

    If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;

  • Job 12:2

    No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.

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