Job 6:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 6:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 40:18
His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
Job 41:24
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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 happy period of his miseries, Job 3:1-26. For this Eliphaz had gravely reproved him, but he, instead of unsaying what he had said, says it here again with more vehemence than before; and it is as ill…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. Disease had so attacked him that his strength would need to be hard as a stone, and his flesh like brass, not to sink under it. But he has only flesh, like other men. It must, therefore, give way; so that the hope of restoration suggested by Eliphaz is vain (see on Job 5:11).