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What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
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A Cry of Depleted Strength
Job's question is not a request for more strength, but a declaration that his has run out. Commentators explain that Job feels he lacks the physical and emotional capacity to continue hoping or waiting patiently. He fears that if his suffering is prolonged, his breaking point will cause him to dishonor God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
What is my strength, that I should hope? - Job had until now borne his trials without fear that he would lose his constancy of hope…
19th Century
Anglican
Prolong my life. —This is the literal rendering; but some understand be patient, as in our phrase, long-sufferin…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
What [is] my strength, that I should hope? &c.] For a perfect restoration of health, suggested by Eliphaz; since it was s…
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Job had desired death as the welcome end to his miseries. Eliphaz had reproved him for this, but Job asks for it again with more vehemence than bef…
13th Century
Catholic
Eliphaz had clearly noted three things in Job’s lament: despair, because Job seemed to desire non-existence; impatience or excessive sorrow, becaus…
