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Job 6:11
11I am not strong enough to hope for my life to become any better. There is no reason for me to continue my life.
Job 6:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
- New International Version (NIV)“What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?
- English Standard Version (ESV)What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?
- New King James Version (NKJV)“What strength do I have, that I should hope? And what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
Context of Job 6:11
9I would like him to destroy me. He should kill me himself. 10Then I would have peace. I would be happy. I have received much cruel pain. But I have always obeyed the words of the holy God. I am not strong enough to hope for my life to become any better. There is no reason for me to continue my life. 12I am not as strong as stones. My body is not strong like bronze. 13I no longer have strength to help myself. There is nowhere that I can go to get help.
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מַה־כֹּחִ֥י כִֽי־אֲיַחֵ֑ל וּמַה־קִּ֝צִּ֗י כִּֽי־אַאֲרִ֥יךְ נַפְשִֽׁי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 6:11
- Job 7:5There are worms all over my body. All of my skin is painful. There are dirty sores all over it.
- Job 10:20I will only live for a few more days. So leave me alone! Then I may be happy for a moment.
- Job 13:25I am as weak as a leaf that the wind can blow away. But you still want to frighten me. I am as useless as chaff, but you still attack me.
- Job 17:1I am very weak and I will soon die. Then my friends will bury me in my grave.
- Psalms 39:5Yes, you have made the days of my life only a few! The time that I live seems very short to you. Human life is only a breath, even for those who seem to be strong. Selah.
- Psalms 90:5You cause people's lives to end, as a dream finishes when you wake up. People are like grass that appears in the morning.
- Psalms 102:23But God has made me weak before I have reached old age. He has made my life short.
- Psalms 103:14He knows that we are weak humans. He remembers that he used dust to make us.
Commentaries on Job 6:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11What is my strength - I can never suppose that my strength will be restored; and, were that possible, have I any comfortable prospect of a happy termination of my life? Had I any prospect of future happiness, I might well bear my present ills; but the state of my body and the state of my circumstances preclude all hope.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11What is my strength, that I should hope? - Job had hitherto borne his trials without apprehension that he would lose his constancy of hope, or his confidence in God. He here seems to apprehend that his constancy might fail, and he therefore wishes to die before he should be left to dishonor God. He asks, therefore, what strength he had that he should hope to be able to sustain his trials much longer. And what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-13Verses 8-13 Job had desired death as the happy end of his miseries. For this, Eliphaz had reproved him, but he asks for it again with more vehemence than before. It was very rash to speak thus of God destroying him. Who, for one hour, could endure the wrath of the Almighty, if he let loose his hand against him? Let us rather say with David, O spare me a little. Job grounds his comfort upon the testimony of his conscience, that he had been, in some degree…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-30Job responds by criticizing his counselors and questioning God (chapters 6 and 7). He explains his intense words by indicating his deep "grief" or "anguish" (6:2–3; 7:11). Job states that Eliphaz has not provided comfort or sympathy as a friend. Instead, Eliphaz chose to argue about out of date religious or theological ideas.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. What strength have I, so as to warrant the hope of restoration to health? a hope which Eliphaz had suggested. "And what" but a miserable "end" of life is before me, "that I should" desire to "prolong life"? [Umbreit]. Umbreit and Rosenmuller not so well translate the last words "to be patient."Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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