Job 6:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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    8If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!

    9If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

    10So 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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    15Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

  • Job 10:18-20
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    18Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

    19And 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.

    20Are 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 13:14-15
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    14I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

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    18And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

  • Job 7:6-7
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    6My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

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    7And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.

  • Job 14:13-14
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    13If 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!

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    15So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

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    17What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

  • Job 21:4
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    4As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

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    10My 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.

  • Job 30:2
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    2Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.

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    4Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

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    47See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

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    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

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    6Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.

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    1My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

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    11There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?

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    23He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.

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    12My 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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    18Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

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    71%

    13Let 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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    22For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

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    10I 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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    20If 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?

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    19Is 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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    6Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?

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    2If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!

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    5Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

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    9His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

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