Job 6:11

In 11 translations

BSB

What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

What [is] my power that I should hope? And what [is] my end that I should prolong my life?

YLT

What [is] my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?

DBY

What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should have patience?

DRC

For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end that I should keep patience?

GNV

What power haue I that I should endure? or what is mine end, if I should prolong my life?

JPS

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

LXXE

For what is my strength, that I continue? what is my time, that my soul endures?

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Original-language editions

WLC

מַה־כֹּחִ֥י כִֽי־אֲיַחֵ֑ל וּמַה־קִּ֝צִּ֗י כִּֽי־אַאֲרִ֥יךְ נַפְשִֽׁי׃

LXX-Br

Τίς γάρ μου ἡ ἰσχύς, ὅτι ὑπομένω; τίς μου ὁ χρόνος, ὅτι ἀνέχεταί μου ἡ ψυχή;

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• Psalms 103:14–16For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field; when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.
• Job 17:1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
• Psalms 102:23He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.
• Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
• Job 13:25Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
• Job 13:28So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
• Job 7:5–7My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering. My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope. Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes…
• Job 10:20Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
• Psalms 90:5–10You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning— in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers. For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath. You…
• Job 17:14–16and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me? Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the…
• Job 21:4Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?

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