Job 6:11

"What is my strength, that. should wait?" Job can endure no more. This is. response to Eliphaz's exhortation to repent and receive blessings (Job 5:18ff). Job 6:12 "Is my strength the strength of stones": Job complains that Eliphaz must believe that Job is made of stone or is insensitive as one made of bronze. "Men of stone and bronze feel nothing. Job is flesh and blood whose power to resist pain is all but exhausted" (Strauss pp. 58-59). Job 6:13 "Is it that my help is not within me": All human power to alleviate his suffering has failed, "thus Job stated that he had no help in himself and no resources" (Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 727).