Job 6:11
For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end that I should keep patience?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
In Context
12My strength is not the strength of stones, nor is my flesh of brass.
Cross References
Job 10:20Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:
Job 13:28Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is moth-eaten.
Job 17:13If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.
Job 17:15Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?
Psalms 39:5I spoke with my tongue : O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days : that I may know what is wanting to me.
Psalms 102:23When the people assemble together, and kings, to serve the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Job 6:9-14
8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! 10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. 11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? 12 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass? 13 Is not my help in me?… Read the whole commentary →