Job 6:11

World English Bible (2000)

What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 17:1 : 1 "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
  • Ps 102:23 : 23 He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.
  • Ps 103:14-16 : 14 For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
  • Ps 90:5-9 : 5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass. 6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry. 7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh. 10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
  • Job 17:14-16 : 14 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;' 15 where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? 16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"
  • Job 21:4 : 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?
  • Job 7:5-7 : 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh. 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. 7 Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
  • Job 10:20 : 20 Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
  • Job 13:25 : 25 Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
  • Job 13:28 : 28 though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

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    15 where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

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    14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

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    6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

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    7 Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

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    15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

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    4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

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    10 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

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    2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

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    4 "Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

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    47 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

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    11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

  • Job 23:6
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    29 I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

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