Job 6:11

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

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“Then I would still have consolation,
And I would jump for joy amid unsparing pain,
That I have not denied or hidden the words of the Holy One.
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“What strength do I have left, that I should wait [and hope]?
And what is ahead of me, that I should be patient and endure?
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“Is my strength and endurance that of stones,
Or is my flesh made of bronze?

Job

Job 7:5-7

“My body is clothed with worms and a crust of dust;
My skin is hardened [and broken and loathsome], and [breaks out and] runs.

Job 10:20

“Would He not let my few days alone,
Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer

Job 13:25

“Will You cause a windblown leaf to tremble?
Will You pursue the chaff of the dry stubble?

Job 13:28

While I waste away like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Job 17:1

“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,
The grave is ready for me.

Job 17:14-16

If I call out to the pit (grave), ‘You are my father’;
And to the worm [that feeds on decay], ‘You are my mother and my sister [because I will soon be closest to you],’

Job 21:4

“As for me, is my complaint to man or about him?
And why should I not be impatient and my spirit troubled?

Psalm 39:5

“Behold, You have made my days as [short as] hand widths,
And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]! Selah.

Psalm 90:5-10

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];
In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—

Psalm 102:23

He has exhausted my strength [humbling me with sorrow] in the way;
He has shortened my days.

Psalm 103:14-16

For He knows our [mortal] frame;
He remembers that we are [merely] dust.