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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Job 6:11-13

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

Eliphaz had intimated, the want of wisdom in Job's grief Job 4:21. Job in those verses refutes this argument, and proves that he was not void of reason.

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See also Job 6:11-13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 6:11. _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 pr...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHAT IS MY STRENGTH, THAT I SHOULD HOPE? - Job had hitherto borne his trials without apprehension that he would lose his constancy of hope, or his confidence in God. He here seems to apprehend that hi...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 6-7 JOB'S ANSWER _ 1. His Despair justified by the greatness of his suffering (Job 6:1)_ 2. He requests to be cut off (Job 6:8) 3. He reproacheth his friends (Job 6:14) 4. The misery of...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Job in his reply deals first of all with the charge of impatience. He catches up the word used by Eliphaz (Job 5:2), and declares that his impatience does but balance his calamity (Job 6:1 f.). The dr...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    With more calmness Job proceeds to describe his hopeless condition, carrying out in this indirect way his defence of his despair....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Job 6:1-13. Job defends the violence of his complaints and his despair Eliphaz had made no reference directly to sin on Job's part; but he drew dark pictures of the evilness of human nature before th...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This verse should read, What is my strength that I should wait? And what is mine end that I should be patient? His impatient cry for death and his despair are justified by his condition. "Mine end...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND WHAT IS MINE END, &C.?— Or, _what is mine end, that I should wish it to be deferred?_ Houbigant....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. In his wasted condition, death is desirable. (Job 6:8-13) TEXT 6:8-13 8 OH THAT I MIGHT HAVE MY REQUEST; And that God would grant _me_ THE THING THAT I LONG FOR! 9 Even that it would please God...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _WHAT IS MY STRENGTH, THAT I SHOULD HOPE? AND WHAT IS MINE END, THAT I SHOULD PROLONG MY LIFE?_ What is my strength - so as to warrant the hope of restoration to health? a hope which Eliphaz had sugg...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    6:11 patience? (h-18) Lit. 'lengthen out my soul' or 'life.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST SPEECH OF JOB (JOB 6:7) 1-13. Job, smarting under the remarks of Eliphaz, which he feels are not appropriate to his case, renews and justifies his complaints. He bemoans the heaviness of Go...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PROLONG MY LIFE] RV 'be patient.' Since there is nothing but death before him, how can he help being impatient for its arrival?...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 6 JOB REPLIES TO ELIPHAZ’S...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job explained that his body and his spirit were weak. Job used to be a great man, whom everybody respected (Job 1:3; Job 29:1-10; Job 29:21-25). He was a leader of his people. But now, Job needed help...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    PROLONG MY LIFE. — This is the literal rendering; but some understand _be patient,_ as in our phrase, _long-_suffering....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מַה ־כֹּחִ֥י כִֽי ־אֲיַחֵ֑ל וּ מַה ־קִּ֝צִּ֗י

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1; Job 7:1 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own heart because no channel outside self is provided for the hot strea...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “A DECEITFUL BROOK” Job 6:1 The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of his pain,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Job's answer is a magnificent and terrible outcry. First, he speaks of his pain as a protest against the method of Eliphaz. His reply is not to the deduction which Eliphaz' argument suggested, but rat...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine (h) end, that I should prolong my life? (h) He fears lest he should be brought to inconveniences, if his sorrows should continue....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _End. Septuagint, "time." I am too weak and short-lived to bear all this. (Haydock) --- I can perceive no end. (Menochius) --- Keep. Protestants, "prolong my life." (Haydock) --- "What is the extent o...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    Job's Answer to Eliphaz I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we took a look at Eliphaz' speech to Job. 1. Eliphaz based the authority for what he said to Job upon the visitation of an angel. 2. But, we al...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHAT [IS] MY STRENGTH, THAT I SHOULD HOPE?.... For a perfect restoration of health, suggested by Eliphaz; since it was so sadly weakened by the present affliction, which made death more desirable than...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine end, that I should prolong my life? Ver. 11. _What is my strength, that I should hope?_] _q.d._ Thou hast told me, O Eliphaz, that if I f...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _What is my strength that I should hope?_ My strength is so small and spent, that although I may linger a while in my torments, yet I cannot live long, and therefore it is vain for me to hope for such...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    What is my strength that I should hope, continue to wait, persevere as heretofore? AND WHAT IS MINE END THAT I SHOULD PROLONG MY LIFE, literally, "lengthen my soul," be patient? His strength was compl...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB DEFENDS HIS DESIRE FOR DEATH...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ (vv.1-30) It is remarkable that Job, being in the painful condition he was, was still able to reply in such capable and stirring language to Eliphaz. He knew that Eliphaz had...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "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 STON...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 destro...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    My strength is so small and spent, that although I may linger a while in my torments, yet I cannot live long, and therefore it is vain and absurd for me to hope for such a restitution of my strength a...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 6:11 strength H3581 hope H3176 (H8762) end H7093 prolong H748 (H8686) life H5315 What -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer to Eliphaz. His appeal for pity. CHARACTERS: God, Eliphaz, Job. CONCLUSION: No one can judge another justly without much prayer for divine guidance. Affliction does not necess...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 6:4. _The poison_ of the arrows absorbed his spirits. In 1822, when Campbel the missionary travelled in South Africa, a bushman shot one of his men in the back with a poisoned arrow. He languished...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _But Job answered and said._ JOB’S ANSWER TO ELIPHAZ We must come upon grief in one of two ways and Job seems to have come upon grief in a way that is to be deprecated. He came upon it late in life....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 6:1 Job responds to Eliphaz’s words of “comfort.” ⇐ ⇔...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ I. Justifies his complaint (Job 6:2). “O that my grief were thoroughly weighed,” &c. Job’s case neither apprehended nor appreciated by his friends. Desires fervently that his...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Job 6:1. and 7. contain Job's reply to Eliphaz. In Job 6:1. he confines himself to three points: (1) a justification of his "grief"—_i.e._ of his vexation and impatience (Job 6:1); (2)

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So Job responds to him and he says, Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamities laid in the balances together! (Job 6:1-2) Now, of course, picturesque, you got to see it. In those days...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Job 10:20; Job 13:25; Job 13:28; Job 17:1; Job 17:14;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Strength — My strength is so spent, that it is vain for me to hope for such restitution as thou hast promised me, Job 5:22. End — What is death to me? It is not terrible, but comfortable. That — Then...

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