Job 6:12

12 nec fortitudo lapidum fortitudo mea nec caro mea aerea est

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 et haec mihi sit consolatio ut adfligens me dolore non parcat nec contradicam sermonibus Sancti

11 quae est enim fortitudo mea ut sustineam aut quis finis meus ut patienter agam

12 nec fortitudo lapidum fortitudo mea nec caro mea aerea est

13 ecce non est auxilium mihi in me et necessarii quoque mei recesserunt a me

14 qui tollit ab amico suo misericordiam timorem Domini derelinquit