Job 6:12

12 Or [is] my strength [like] the strength of stones? Or [is] my flesh bronze?

Job 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.

Job 6:12 In-Context

10 But it will still be my consolation, and I would recoil in {unrelenting} pain, for I have not denied [the] words of [the] Holy One.

11 What [is] my strength, that I should wait? And what [is] my end, that {I should hold out}?

12 Or [is] my strength [like] the strength of stones? Or [is] my flesh bronze?

13 {Indeed}, my help is not in me, and [any] success is driven from me.

14 "Loyal love [should come] for the afflicted [from] his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of Shaddai.