Job 6:11
What [is] my power that I should hope? And what [is] my end that I should prolong my life?
Literal Standard 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
12Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh bronze?
Cross References
Job 10:20Are my days not few? Cease then, and put from me, || And I brighten up a little,
Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, wears away, || A moth has consumed him as a garment.”
Job 17:13If I wait—Sheol [is] my house, || In darkness I have spread out my bed.
Job 17:15And where [is] my hope now? Indeed, my hope, who beholds it?
Psalms 39:5Behold, You have made my days handbreadths, || And my age [is] as nothing before You, || Only, every man set up [is] all vanity. Selah.
Psalms 102:23He has humbled my power in the way, || He has shortened my days.
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 →