Verse 11

What is my strength, that I should hope? What is my end, that I should prolong my life?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 17:1 : 1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded away, and the grave is ready for me.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 LORD, let me know my end and the number of my days, so I may understand how fleeting my life is.
  • Ps 102:23 : 23 when peoples and kingdoms gather together to serve the LORD.
  • Ps 103:14-16 : 14 For He knows how we are formed; He remembers that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are like grass, he blooms like a flower of the field. 16 The wind blows over it, and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.
  • Ps 90:5-9 : 5 You sweep them away like a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that springs up in the morning— 6 In the morning it flourishes and grows, but by evening it withers and dries up. 7 We are consumed by your anger, and terrified by your wrath. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9 All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a sigh. 10 The span of our life is seventy years—or eighty, if we have strength; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
  • Job 17:14-16 : 14 and I call the pit my father, and the worm my mother and sister, 15 then where is my hope? And who can see any hope for me? 16 Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?
  • Job 21:4 : 4 Is my complaint directed to a man? Why then should my spirit not be impatient?
  • Job 7:5-7 : 5 My body is clothed with worms and scabs; my skin cracks and festers. 6 My days pass more swiftly than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope. 7 Remember that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see good again.
  • Job 10:20 : 20 Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.
  • Job 13:25 : 25 Will You terrify a wind-driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
  • Job 13:28 : 28 So man wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.