Job 6:11
Good News Translation
What strength do I have to keep on living? Why go on living when I have no hope?

New Revised Standard Version
What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?

Contemporary English Version
Why should I patiently hope when my strength is gone?

New American Bible
What strength have I that I should endure, and what is my limit that I should be patient?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end, that I should keep patience?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end, that I should keep patience?

What.

Job 7:5-7 My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust; my skin is withered and drawn together. . . .

Job 10:20 Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:

Job 13:25,28 Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw. . . .

Job 17:1,14-16 My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me. . . .

Psalm 39:5 Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.

Psalm 90:5-10 Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be. . . .

Psalm 102:23 He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days.

Psalm 103:14-16 For he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust: . . .

Context
Job Replies: My Complaint is Just
10And that this may be my comfort, that afflicting me with sorrow, he spare not, nor I contradict the words of the Holy one. 11For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end, that I should keep patience?12My strength is not the strength of stones, nor is my flesh of brass.…
Cross References
Job 6:12
My strength is not the strength of stones, nor is my flesh of brass.

Job 21:4
Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?

Job 26:2
Whose helper art thou? is it of him that is weak? and dost thou hold up the arm of him that has no strength?

Psalm 39:4
I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me.

Job 6:10
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