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Hiob 6:12

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Hiob 6:12 Meaning and Commentary

Job 6:12

[Is] my strength the strength of stones?
&c.] Is it like such especially which are foundation and corner stones that support a building? or like a stone pillar, that will bear a prodigious weight? no, it is not:

or [is] my flesh of brass?
is it made of brass? or is it like to brass for hardness, or for sustaining any weight laid on it? it is not; and, therefore, it cannot bear up under the ponderous load of afflictions on it, but must sink and fail; it is but flesh and blood, and that flesh like grass, weak and feeble; and, therefore, death is better than life laden with such an insupportable burden.

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Hiob 6:12 In-Context

10 So würde noch mein Trost sein, und ich würde frohlocken in schonungsloser Pein, daß ich die Worte des Heiligen nicht verleugnet habe.
11 Was ist meine Kraft, daß ich ausharren, und was mein Ende, daß ich mich gedulden sollte?
12 Ist Kraft der Steine meine Kraft, oder ist mein Fleisch von Erz?
13 Ist es nicht also, daß keine Hilfe in mir, und jede Kraft aus mir vertrieben ist?
14 Dem Verzagten gebührt Milde von seinem Freunde, sonst wird er die Furcht des Allmächtigen verlassen.
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