The Meaning of Job 6:13 Explained

Job 6:13

KJV: Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

YLT: Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?

Darby: Is it not that there is no help in me, and soundness is driven away from me?

ASV: Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 6:13 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 6:1-30 - "a Deceitful Brook"
The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of his pain, Job 6:4, or they would have seen it to be as natural as the braying and lowing of hungry and suffering beasts, Job 6:5. A man would not take insipid food without complaint; how much more reason had he to complain whose tears were his meat day and night, Job 6:6-7! So bitter were his pains that he would welcome death, and exult in the throes of dissolution, Job 6:8-10. It could hardly be otherwise than that he should succumb, since he had only the ordinary strength of mortals, and both strength and wisdom were exhausted, Job 6:11-13.
Job next characterizes the assistance of his friends as winter brooks, turbid with melted ice and snow, which bitterly disappoint the travelers who had hoped to find water, and perish beside the dry heaps of stones, Job 6:17. They had found fault with his words, which, in the circumstances, were not a true index to his heart, Job 6:26; but a look into his face would have sufficed to attest his innocence of the sin of which they accused him, Job 6:28-30.
From these complaints of faithlessness and disappointment we turn to Him who, having been made perfect through suffering, has become "the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him," Hebrews 5:9. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 6

1  Job shows that his complaints are not causeless
8  He wishes for death, wherein he is assured of comfort
14  He reproves his friends of unkindness

What do the individual words in Job 6:13 mean?

[Is] not my help within me and success is driven from me
הַאִ֬ם אֵ֣ין עֶזְרָתִ֣י בִ֑י וְ֝תֻשִׁיָּ֗ה נִדְּחָ֥ה מִמֶּֽנִּי

עֶזְרָתִ֣י  my  help 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: עֶזְרָה  
Sense: help, succour, assistance.
בִ֑י  within  me 
Parse: Preposition, first person common singular
וְ֝תֻשִׁיָּ֗ה  and  success 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular
Root: תּוּשִׁיָּה  
Sense: wisdom, sound knowledge, success, sound or efficient wisdom, abiding success.
נִדְּחָ֥ה  is  driven 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, third person feminine singular
Root: נָדַח 
Sense: to impel, thrust, drive away, banish.
מִמֶּֽנִּי  from  me 
Parse: Preposition, first person common singular
Root: מִן 
Sense: from, out of, on account of, off, on the side of, since, above, than, so that not, more than.