Holy Scripture

Job 6:13

A church father on this verse
“Lo, there is no help to me in myself. It is now made clear to whom the mind of the stricken man had recourse for hope, seeing that he declares that there was no hope to him in himself; but because he intimates that in himself he was weak, for the earning of yet greater strength, let him add how he was even forsaken by…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book VII

Source: Septuagint

Original

13Or have I not trusted in him? But help is far from me.

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In context

11For what is my strength, that I continue? What is my time, that my soul endures?

12Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?

— Job 6:13 —

14Mercy has rejected me; And the visitation of the Lord has disregarded me.

15My nearest relations have not regarded me; They have passed me by like a failing brook, or like a wave.

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