Job 6:11
Why should I go on waiting when I don't have the strength? Why should I keep going when I don't know what is going to happen to me?
Free Bible Version
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
12Am I as strong as rock? Am I made out of bronze?
Cross References
Job 10:20I only have a few days left, so why don't you leave me alone so I can have a little peace
Job 13:28I'm falling apart like something rotten, like moth-eaten clothes.
Job 17:13What am I looking for? To make my home in Sheol, to make my bed in darkness?
Job 17:15So then where is my hope? Can anyone see any hope for me?
Psalms 39:5Just look at the tiny amount of days you have given me! In your eyes my whole lifetime is like nothing. Our lives here are just a breath… Selah.
Psalms 102:23But as for me, he broke my health while I was still young, cutting my life short.
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 →