Holy Scripture
Job 6:12
A church father on this verse
“Neither is my strength the strength of stones, nor is my flesh of brass? For what have we here denoted by 'brass' and 'stones' save the hearts of the insensate, who oftentimes even receive the strokes of the Most High, and yet they are not softened by any strokes of discipline? Contrary whereunto, it is said to the El…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
12Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?
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In context
10Let the grave be my city, upon the walls of which I have leaped: I will not shrink from it; For I have not denied the holy words of my God.
11For what is my strength, that I continue? What is my time, that my soul endures?
— Job 6:12 —
13Or have I not trusted in him? But help is far from me.
14Mercy has rejected me; And the visitation of the Lord has disregarded me.