Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 6:11 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 11. 11What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
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Role in This Section
Job 6:11 advances the thought unit with the words “What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my….” Job presses the unit's question through “What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my…”, a line that belongs to Job Longs for Death and Names Exhausted Strength.
Read It With
- Job 6:8–6:13
Read Job 6:11 with 6:8–6:13. Read alone, “What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my…” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job wishes God would end his life, treats faithfulness to divine words as his remaining comfort, and denies having strength or resources to prolong hope.
Why It Needs Context
Job 6:11 depends on 6:8–6:13; isolating “What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my…” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “Job Longs for Death and Names Exhausted Strength.”
Read Job 6:8–13 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 6:8–6:13 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Longs for Death and Names Exhausted Strength.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 8. 8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Verse 9. 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Verse 10. 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.
Verse 11. 11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Verse 12. 12 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
Verse 13. 13 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
Continue in Context
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Read Job 6:8–6:13 — Job Longs for Death and Names Exhausted StrengthSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 6:8–6:13, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 6:8–6:13
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