Job 6:12
My strength is not the strength of stones, nor is my flesh of brass.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Nec fortitudo lapidum fortitudo mea, nec caro mea ænea est.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ ἰσχὺς λίθων ἡ ἰσχύς μου; ἢ αἱ σάρκες μού εἰσιν χαλκεῖαι;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אִם כֹּ֣חַ אֲבָנִ֣ים כֹּחִ֑י אִֽם בְּשָׂרִ֥י נָחֽוּשׁ
Haydock's commentary
Brass. This is proverbial. Homer (Iliad A) says, "Attack the Greeks; their skin is neither of stone, (Calmet) iron, or brass." Those who are aware of their own frailty, ought not to expose themselves to dangerous company, particularly to those of the other sex.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.