Job 6:11

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 6:12-13
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    12[Is] my strength the strength of stones? or [is] my flesh of brass?

    13[Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

  • Job 6:8-10
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    80%

    8¶ Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!

    9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

    10Then 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.

  • Job 17:15
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    15And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

  • Job 10:18-20
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    79%

    18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

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    20[Are] not my days few? cease [then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • Job 13:14-15
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    77%

    14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

    15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

  • Lam 3:18
    77%

    18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

  • Job 7:6-7
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    76%

    6My 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.

  • Ps 39:7
    76%

    7¶ And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.

  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13O 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!

    14If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

  • Job 7:15-17
    3 verses
    75%

    15So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.

    16I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.

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  • Job 21:4
    75%

    4As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?

  • Ps 31:10
    74%

    10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • Job 30:2
    74%

    2Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished?

  • Ps 39:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].

    5Behold, 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 89:47
    74%

    47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

  • Job 17:11
    73%

    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.

  • Job 23:6
    73%

    6Will he plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he would put [strength] in me.

  • Job 17:1
    72%

    1¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.

  • Eccl 6:11
    72%

    11¶ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?

  • Job 9:29
    72%

    29[If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

  • Job 9:19
    72%

    19If [I speak] of strength, lo, [he is] strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time [to plead]?

  • Ps 102:23
    72%

    23¶ He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

  • Isa 38:12
    71%

    12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • Jer 8:18
    71%

    18[When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.

  • Ps 39:13
    71%

    13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

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    71%

    6¶ Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased?

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    71%

    22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.

  • Isa 38:10
    71%

    10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

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    71%

    1¶ My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Job 7:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

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  • Job 13:19
    71%

    19Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

  • Job 4:6
    71%

    6[Is] not [this] thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

  • Job 6:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

    3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

  • Job 10:5
    71%

    5[Are] thy days as the days of man? [are] thy years as man's days,

  • Job 41:9
    71%

    9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him?

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    71%

    27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:

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    70%

    12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?