Job 6:11
What [is] my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?
Young's Literal Translation
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 brazen?
Cross References
Job 10:20Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
Job 17:13If I wait — Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
Job 17:15And where [is] now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?
Psalms 39:5Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age [is] as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity [is] every man set up. Selah.
Psalms 102:23He hath humbled in the way my power, He hath 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 →