Job 6:11
Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?
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Referenced Verses
- Job 17:1 : 1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
- Ps 39:5 : 5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
- Ps 102:23 : 23 He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.
- Ps 103:14-16 : 14 For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust. 15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field. 16 The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.
- Ps 90:5-9 : 5 ... 6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry. 7 We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath. 8 You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face. 9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath. 10 The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.
- Job 17:14-16 : 14 If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister; 15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire? 16 Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?
- Job 21:4 : 4 As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?
- Job 7:5-7 : 5 My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again. 6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope. 7 O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.
- Job 10:20 : 20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,
- Job 13:25 : 25 Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?
- Job 13:28 : 28 Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
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8 If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!
9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!
10 So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.
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15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?
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19 And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.
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14 I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
15 Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;
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18 And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.
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6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
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7 And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.
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13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
14 If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
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15 So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.
16 I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.
17 What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,
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10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.
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2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.
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4 Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.
5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
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47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
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11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.
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6 Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.
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1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
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11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?
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29 You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?
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19 If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?
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23 He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.
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12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.
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18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.
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13 Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.
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6 If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?
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22 For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
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10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.
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20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?
21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
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19 Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.
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6 Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?
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2 If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!
3 For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.
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5 Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,
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9 His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.
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27 If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;
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12 Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?