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Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just

Job 6:13

In 11 translations

BSB
Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?
KJV
Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
WEB
Isn’t it that I have no help in me, that wisdom is driven away from me?
ASV
Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?
LSV
Is my help not with me, || And substance driven from me?
YLT
Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?
DBY
Is it not that there is no help in me, and soundness is driven away from me?
DRC
Behold there is no help for me in myself, and my familiar friends also are departed from me.
GNV
Is it not so, that there is in me no helpe? and that strength is taken from me?
JPS
Is it that I have no help in me, and that sound wisdom is driven quite from me?
LXXE
Or have I not trusted in him? but help is far from me.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
הַאִ֬ם אֵ֣ין עֶזְרָתִ֣י בִ֑י וְ֝תֻשִׁיָּ֗ה נִדְּחָ֥ה מִמֶּֽנִּי׃
LXX-Br
Ἢ οὐκ ἐπʼ αὐτῷ ἐπεποίθειν; βοήθεια δὲ ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ ἄπεστιν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 26:2“How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
  • 2 Corinthians 1:12And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace…
  • Job 13:2What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
  • Job 12:2–3“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die! But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
  • Job 19:28If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
  • Galatians 6:4Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.

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