Job 6:11
What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine end, that I should prolong my life?
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Referenced Verses
- Job 17:1 : 1 ¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.
- Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.
- Ps 102:23 : 23 ¶ He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
- Ps 103:14-16 : 14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust. 15 [As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
- Ps 90:5-9 : 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 7 ¶ For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret [sins] in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told]. 10 The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
- Job 17:14-16 : 14 I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister. 15 And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? 16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust.
- Job 21:4 : 4 As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?
- Job 7:5-7 : 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. 7 ¶ O remember that my life [is] wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
- Job 10:20 : 20 [Are] not my days few? cease [then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
- Job 13:25 : 25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
- Job 13:28 : 28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
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9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
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19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
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13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.
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2 Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished?
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4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].
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47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
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11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.
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6 Will he plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he would put [strength] in me.
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1 ¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.
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11 ¶ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?
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29 [If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
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19 If [I speak] of strength, lo, [he is] strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time [to plead]?
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23 ¶ He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
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18 [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.
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13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
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22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
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19 Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
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6 [Is] not [this] thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
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2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
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5 [Are] thy days as the days of man? [are] thy years as man's days,
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9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him?
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27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:
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12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?