11 What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?
Job 6:11
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Job 17:14–16
14 and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ 15 where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me? 16 Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
Job 21:3–5
3 Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking. 4 Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient? 5 Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
Lamentations 3:17–19
17 My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. 18 So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.” 19 Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
Psalms 39:6–8
6 Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away. 7 And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.
Job 10:19–21
19 If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave. 20 Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort, 21 before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,
2 Baruch 48:16–18
16 For we said not to our parents, "Beget us," Nor did we send to Sheol and say, "Receive us." (2BA) 17 What therefore is our strength that we should bear Thy wrath Or what are we that we should endure Thy judgement? (2BA) 18 Protect us in Thy compassions, And in Thy mercy help us. (2BA)
Psalms 119:81–83
81 My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word. 82 My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?” 83 Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.
Job 4:5–7
5 But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed. 6 Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope? 7 Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the uprig…
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