Job 6:12–14

¹² Is my strength like that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze? ¹³ Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me? ¹⁴ A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Semantically similar passages

Job 36:18–20

¹⁸ Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large bribe lead you astray. ¹⁹ Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress? ²⁰ Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.

Job 30:23–25

²³ Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living. ²⁴ Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress. ²⁵ Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?

Job 4:5–7

⁵ But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed. ⁶ Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope? ⁷ Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the uprig…

Job 19:20–22

²⁰ My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. ²¹ Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me. ²² Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

1 Clement 39:1–3

¹ Senseless and stupid and foolish and ignorant men jeer and mock at us, desiring that they themselves should be exalted in their imaginations. (1CL) ² For what power hath a mortal? or what strength hath a child of earth? (1CL) ³ For it is written; There was no form before mine… (1CL)