Job 6:13 (BSB)
Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?
Commentary on Job 6:13
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 6:8-13: Ungoverned passion often grows more violent when it meets with some rebuke and check. The troubled sea rages most when it dashes against a rock. Job had been courting death, as that which would be the happy period of his miseries, ch. 3.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 6:13: To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend,.... An "afflicted" man is an object of pity, one that is afflicted of God; either inwardly with a wounded spirit, with a sense of God's displeasure, with divine desertions, with the arrows of the Almighty sticking in him, the poison thereof drinking up his spirits; or outwardly with diseases of body, with want...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 6:13: Is not my help in me?--The interrogation is better omitted. "There is no help in me!" For "wisdom," "deliverance" is a better rendering. "And deliverance is driven quite from me."
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 6:13: [Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? (i) Have I not sought to help myself as much as was possible?