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Job 6:13 Explained in Context
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Verse 13. 13Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
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Quick Meaning
Job 6:13 closes the thought unit with the words “Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?.” Job presses the unit's question through “Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?”, a line that belongs to Job Longs for Death and Names Exhausted Strength.
Read It With
- Job 6:8–6:13
Read Job 6:13 with 6:8–6:13. Read alone, “Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job wishes God would end his life, treats faithfulness to divine words as his remaining comfort, and denies having strength or resources to prolong hope.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Job continues from Job 6:1–6:7: Job asks that grief and calamity be weighed, describes divine arrows, and uses hunger images to explain why anguish has made speech difficult. Job 6:8–6:13 now develops the next distinct movement: Job wishes God would end his life, treats faithfulness to divine words as his remaining comfort, and denies having strength or resources to prolong hope. Within that relationship, Job 6:13 closes the thought unit through “Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?.”
Read Job 6:8–13 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 6:8–6:13 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Longs for Death and Names Exhausted Strength.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 8. 8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Verse 9. 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Verse 10. 10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
Verse 11. 11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Verse 12. 12 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
Verse 13. 13 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
What Remains True
Job wishes God would end his life, treats faithfulness to divine words as his remaining comfort, and denies having strength or resources to prolong hope. The enduring truth joins honest recognition of anguish with compassionate presence, protection, and appropriate care rather than diagnosis, blame, or romanticism. Job 6:13 carries that bounded truth through “Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?.”
How It Can Shape Life
- When present-day speech echoes the anguish in Job 6:8–6:13, listen without diagnosis or debate, remain compassionately present, support medical and mental-health care, and seek qualified immediate help when safety may be at risk. Preserve this unit-specific boundary in the action: This death wish is not an instruction or romantic ideal; safety-aware readers should remain with a distressed person and seek appropriate immediate help rather than debate blame. The verse-specific evidence to retain is “Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?.”
Continue in Context
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 6:8–6:13, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 6:8–6:13
Open the fixed Hebrew Job file ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Job
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006; current official PDF
Supports: Verse-level controls for Job's difficult Hebrew, syntax, older KJV language, textual issues, speech boundaries, and alternatives in Job 6:8–6:13.
Exact location: Official NET Job PDF, exact translator, study, and textual notes attached to Job 6:8–6:13
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