Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
Parallel translations
- WEB Isn’t it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?
- BSB Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?
- NKJV Is my help not within me? And is success driven from me?
- NASB “Is it that my help is not within me, And that a good outcome is driven away from me?
- NLT No, I am utterly helpless, without any chance of success.
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Quick answer
Job laments that he has no help in himself and that wisdom has been driven from him. He feels utterly without inner resources or guidance.
Overview
Job admits both helplessness and a loss of wisdom, as if every support has been stripped away. This is the cry of one at the end of his own strength. It points beyond self to the need for help and wisdom from outside, ultimately found in Christ, who is made for us wisdom and the very help of the helpless when our own resources fail.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Job 26:2How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
- 2 Cor 1:12For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
- Job 13:2What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
- Job 12:2–3No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
- Job 19:28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
- Gal 6:4But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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