“Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?”
— WEB
Job 6:12
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“Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?”
— KJV
“Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?”
— ASV
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Commentary
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).
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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