Is not my help in me? - This would be better rendered in an affirmative manner, or as an exclamation. The interrogative form of the previo…

Is not my help in me? — It is in passages such as these that the actual meaning of Job is so obscure and his words so dif…

[Is] my help in me ?
&c.] Or "my defence" ^F25 , as some; is it not in my power to defend myself against t…

Job had desired death as the welcome end to his miseries. Eliphaz had reproved him for this, but Job asks for it again with more vehemence than bef…

In the preceding verses, Job had shown that while he felt pain and spoke from that pain, he did so rationally and was not carried away by his suffe…