Job 6 · Verse 11

Job 6:11

What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Job 6:11, King James Version

Job 6:11 in other translations

BSBWhat strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?
WEBWhat is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
ASVWhat is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?
YLTWhat is my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?
DARBYWhat is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should have patience?
BBEHave I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?
WebsterWhat is my strength, that I should hope? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

What does Job 6:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
11. What strength have I, so as to warrant the hope of restoration to health? a hope which Eliphaz had suggested. "And what" but a miserable "end" of life is before me, "that I should" desire to "prolong life"? [Umbreit]. Umbreit and Rosenmuller not so well translate the last words "to be patient."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 What is my strength - I can never suppose that my strength will be restored; and, were that possible, have I any comfortable prospect of a happy termination of my life? Had I any prospect of future happiness, I might well bear my present ills; but the state of my body and the state of my circumstances preclude all hope.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 6:8-13

Job had desired death as the happy end of his miseries. For this, Eliphaz had reproved him, but he asks for it again with more vehemence than before. It was very rash to speak thus of God destroying him. Who, for one hour, could endure the wrath of the Almighty, if he let loose his hand against him? Let us rather say with David, O spare me a little. Job grounds his comfort upon the testimony of his conscience, that…

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Job 6:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

מַה\־mah-what?H4100
כֹּחִ֥יko.Chi[is] strength myH3581
כִֽי\־khi-thatH3588
אֲיַחֵ֑ל'a.ya.ChelI will waitH3176
וּמַה\־u.mah-and what?H4100
קִּ֝צִּ֗יki.Tzi[is] end myH7093
כִּֽי\־ki-thatH3588
אַאֲרִ֥יךְ'a.'a.RikhI will prolongH748
נַפְשִֽׁי\׃naf.Shilife myH5315

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Cross references for Job 6:11

  • Psalms 103:14-16

    For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

  • Psalms 102:23

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

  • Job 17:1

    My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

  • Psalms 39:5

    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.

  • Job 10:20

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

  • Psalms 90:5-10

    Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. …

  • Job 21:4

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

  • Job 17:14-16

    I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

  • Job 7:5-7

    My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

  • Job 13:25

    Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

  • Job 13:28

    And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
What.
7:5-7; 10:20; 13:25,28; 17:1,14-16; Ps 39:5; 90:5-10; 102:23
Ps 103:14-16

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Context

  • Job 6:10

    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.

  • Job 6:11

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

  • Job 6:12

    Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?

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Job 6:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
¿Cuál es mi fortaleza para esperar aún? ¿y cuál mi fin para dilatar mi vida?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Quelle est ma force pour que j’attende, et quelle est ma fin pour que je patiente?
German
Elberfelder 1871
Was ist meine Kraft, daß ich ausharren, und was mein Ende, daß ich mich gedulden sollte?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Quæ est enim fortitudo mea, ut sustineam? aut quis finis meus, ut patienter agam?