The Meaning of Job 6:11 Explained

Job 6:11

KJV: What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine 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?

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

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

Discover Job 6:11

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 6:11?

MEANING: What does Job 6:11 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 6:11 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 6:11?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 6:11 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 6:1-30 - "a Deceitful Brook"
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, Job 6:4, or they would have seen it to be as natural as the braying and lowing of hungry and suffering beasts, Job 6:5. A man would not take insipid food without complaint; how much more reason had he to complain whose tears were his meat day and night, Job 6:6-7! So bitter were his pains that he would welcome death, and exult in the throes of dissolution, Job 6:8-10. It could hardly be otherwise than that he should succumb, since he had only the ordinary strength of mortals, and both strength and wisdom were exhausted, Job 6:11-13.
Job next characterizes the assistance of his friends as winter brooks, turbid with melted ice and snow, which bitterly disappoint the travelers who had hoped to find water, and perish beside the dry heaps of stones, Job 6:17. They had found fault with his words, which, in the circumstances, were not a true index to his heart, Job 6:26; but a look into his face would have sufficed to attest his innocence of the sin of which they accused him, Job 6:28-30.
From these complaints of faithlessness and disappointment we turn to Him who, having been made perfect through suffering, has become "the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him," Hebrews 5:9. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 6

1  Job shows that his complaints are not causeless
8  He wishes for death, wherein he is assured of comfort
14  He reproves his friends of unkindness

What do the individual words in Job 6:11 mean?

What strength do I have that I should hope and what [is] my end that I should prolong my life
מַה־ כֹּחִ֥י כִֽי־ ؟ אֲיַחֵ֑ל וּמַה־ קִּ֝צִּ֗י כִּֽי־ אַאֲרִ֥יךְ ؟ נַפְשִֽׁי

כֹּחִ֥י  strength  do  I  have 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: כֹּחַ 
Sense: strength, power, might.
כִֽי־  that 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: כִּי 
Sense: that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since.
؟ אֲיַחֵ֑ל  I  should  hope 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Imperfect, first person common singular
Root: יָחַל  
Sense: to wait, hope, expect.
וּמַה־  and  what  [is] 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Interrogative
Root: לָמָּה 
Sense: what, how, of what kind.
קִּ֝צִּ֗י  my  end 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: קֵץ  
Sense: end.
כִּֽי־  that 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: כִּי 
Sense: that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since.
אַאֲרִ֥יךְ  I  should  prolong 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperfect, first person common singular
Root: אָרַךְ 
Sense: to be long, prolong.
؟ נַפְשִֽׁי  my  life 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: נֶפֶשׁ  
Sense: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion.

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