English Standard Version
Job 6:11
11What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?
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?
- 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?
- New Living Translation (NLT)But I don’t have the strength to endure. I have nothing to live for.
Context of Job 6:11
9that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off! 10This would be my comfort; I would even exult in pain unsparing, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One. What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient? 12Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze? 13Have I any help in me, when resource is driven from me?
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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 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
- Job 10:20Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer
- Job 13:25Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
- Job 17:1"My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.
- Psalms 39:5Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
- Psalms 90:5You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning:
- Psalms 102:23He has broken my strength in midcourse; he has shortened my days.
- Psalms 103:14For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
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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