Is ¹  not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource ²  been driven from me?

biblegateway Job 6:13

"Is it that my help is not within me, And that deliverance is driven from me?

Since I cannot help myself, the hope for success has been banished from me.

Am I not completely helpless? Haven’t my skills been taken away from me?

biblegateway Job 6:13

Do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me?

Have I any help in me, when resource is driven from me?

bibleoremus Job 6:13

In truth I have no help in me, and any resource is driven from me.

Oh how shall I find help within myself now that success has been put beyond my reach?

biblegateway Job 6:13

Is my help not within me? And is success driven from me?

[Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

biblegateway Job 6:13

Is ¹  not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource ²  been driven from me?

¹ tn For the use of the particle אִם (’im) in this kind of interrogative clause, see GKC 475 §150.g, note.

² tn The word means something like “recovery,” or the powers of recovery; it was used in Job 5:12. In 11:6 it applies to a condition of the mind, such as mental resource. Job is thinking not so much of relief or rescue from his troubles, but of strength to bear them.