Job 6:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

Job 6:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 103:14-16
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. …
Psalms 102:23
He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
Job 17:1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Psalms 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Job 10:20
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Dead (people)Death Dying Life Man Sleep

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-13)

Ungoverned passion often grows more violent when it meets with some rebuke and check. The troubled sea rages most when it dashes against a rock. Job had been courting death, as that which would be the happy period of his miseries, Job 3:1-26. For this Eliphaz had gravely reproved him, but he, instead of unsaying what he had said, says it here again with more vehemence than before; and it is as ill…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. 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.”