Job 6:11
What power haue I that I should endure? or what is mine end, if I should prolong my life?
Geneva Bible 1599
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? or is my flesh of brasse?
Cross References
Job 10:20Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,
Job 13:28Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.
Job 17:13Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shall make my bed in the darke.
Job 17:15Where is then now mine hope? or who shall consider the thing, that I hoped for?
Psalms 39:5Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.
Psalms 102:23He abated my strength in the way, and shortened my dayes.
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 →