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Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?
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Not Stone, Not Brass
Commentators explain that Job uses powerful rhetorical questions to express his profound human vulnerability. By asking if his strength is like stone or his flesh like brass, he emphasizes that he is a fragile human being, not an indestructible object. This imagery was common in the ancient world to describe great strength, making Job's point clear: he is at his breaking point.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Is my strength the strength of stones? – That is, like a rampart or fortification made of stones, or like a craggy rock that can en…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[Is] my strength the strength of stones ? &c.] Is it like such especially which are foundation and corner stones tha…
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
Eliphaz had clearly noted three things in Job’s lament: despair, because Job seemed to desire non-existence; impatience or excessive sorrow, becaus…