Job 6:11

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

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  • 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.

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  • Job 6:12-13
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    12Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh made of bronze?

    13Indeed, there is no help in me, and ability has been driven from me.

  • Job 6:8-10
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    8Oh, that my request would be granted, and that God would fulfill my hope.

    9That God would be willing to crush me, to let loose His hand and cut me off!

    10It would still be my comfort— I would even exult in the midst of unrelenting pain— for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 17:15
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    15then where is my hope? And who can see any hope for me?

  • Job 10:18-20
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    18Why then did You bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died and no eye had seen me.

    19If only I had never existed, carried straight from the womb to the grave.

    20Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

  • Job 13:14-15
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    14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands?

    15Though He slay me, yet I will hope in Him. Nevertheless, I will defend my ways before Him.

  • Lam 3:18
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    18So I say, 'My strength is gone, and so is my hope from the LORD.'

  • Job 7:6-7
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    6My days pass more swiftly than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.

    7Remember that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see good again.

  • Ps 39:7
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    7Surely, man goes about as a shadow; surely, they make an uproar over nothing; he heaps up wealth, not knowing who will gather it.

  • Job 14:13-14
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    13If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me!

    14If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.

  • Job 7:15-17
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    15I prefer strangling and death rather than this body of mine.

    16I despise my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

    17What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention,

  • Job 21:4
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    4Is my complaint directed to a man? Why then should my spirit not be impatient?

  • Ps 31:10
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    10Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes grow weak with sorrow, as do my soul and my body.

  • Job 30:2
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    2Even the strength of their hands is useless to me; their vigor has perished.

  • Ps 39:4-5
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    4My heart grew hot within me; as I meditated, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

    5LORD, let me know my end and the number of my days, so I may understand how fleeting my life is.

  • Ps 89:47
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    47How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath keep burning like fire?

  • Job 17:11
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    11My days have passed, my plans are broken off, and the desires of my heart are gone.

  • Job 23:6
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    6Would he contend with me in his great power? No, he would instead give me strength.

  • Job 17:1
    72%

    1My spirit is broken, my days have faded away, and the grave is ready for me.

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11The more words, the more meaningless—and what advantage does that bring to anyone?

  • Job 9:29
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    29Since I am already condemned, why should I labor in vain?

  • Job 9:19
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    19If it is a matter of strength, He is mighty! And if it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

  • Ps 102:23
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    23when peoples and kingdoms gather together to serve the LORD.

  • Isa 38:12
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    12My dwelling is pulled up and taken from me, like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver rolls a cloth; He cuts me off from the loom. Day and night You bring me to an end.

  • Jer 8:18
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    18My grief is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

  • Ps 39:13
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    13Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent to my tears, for I am a sojourner with You, a temporary resident like all my fathers.

  • Job 16:6
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    6If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, what do I lose?

  • Job 16:22
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    22For only a few years will come, and the path I take will never return.

  • Isa 38:10
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    10I said, "In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest of my years."

  • Job 10:1
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    1I am disgusted with my life; I will give voice to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Job 7:20-21
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    71%

    20If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?

    21Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.

  • Job 13:19
    71%

    19Who can contend with me? For now, if I am silent, I will perish.

  • Job 4:6
    71%

    6Isn't your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?

  • Job 6:2-3
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    2If only my grief could be weighed and my calamity placed together on the scales!

    3For now, it is heavier than the sands of the seas; that is why my words are impulsive.

  • Job 10:5
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    5Are Your days like the days of a human? Are Your years like those of a strong man?

  • Job 41:9
    71%

    9They are joined to one another; they stick together and cannot be separated.

  • Job 9:27
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    27If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and smile,'

  • Job 3:12
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    12Why were there knees to receive me, or breasts that I should nurse?