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Job 6:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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What is my strength
koach (Hebrew #3581)
from an unused root meaning to be firm; vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce); also (from its hardiness) a large lizard
KJV usage: ability, able, chameleon, force, fruits, might, power(-ful), strength, substance, wealth.
Pronounce: ko'-akh
Origin: or (Dan. 11:6) kowach {ko'-akh}
, that I should hope
yachal (Hebrew #3176)
to wait; by implication, to be patient, hope
KJV usage: (cause to, have, make to) hope, be pained, stay, tarry, trust, wait.
Pronounce: yaw-chal'
Origin: a primitive root
? and what is mine end
qets (Hebrew #7093)
an extremity; adverbially (with prepositional prefix) after
KJV usage: + after, (utmost) border, end, (in-)finite, X process.
Pronounce: kates
Origin: contracted from 7112
, that I should prolong
'arak (Hebrew #748)
to be (causative, make) long (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: defer, draw out, lengthen, (be, become, make, pro-)long, + (out-, over-)live, tarry (long).
Pronounce: aw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
my life
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
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Job 7:5‑7• 5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates.
 6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
 7Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good. (Job 7:5‑7)
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Job 10:20• 20Are not my days few? cease then and let me alone, that I may revive a little, (Job 10:20)
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Job 13:25,28• 25Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
 28One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth. (Job 13:25,28)
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Job 17:1,14‑16• 1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.
 14I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
 15And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?
 16It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when our rest shall be together in the dust. (Job 17:1,14‑16)
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Psa. 39:5• 5Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah. (Psa. 39:5)
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Psa. 90:5‑10• 5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up:
 6In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
 7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.
 8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
 9For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought.
 10The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. (Psa. 90:5‑10)
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Psa. 102:23• 23He weakened my strength in the way, he shortened my days. (Psa. 102:23)
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Psa. 103:14‑16• 14For himself knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
 15As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth:
 16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more. (Psa. 103:14‑16)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "lengthen out my soul" or "life."