Holy Scripture
Job 6:11
A church father on this verse
“What is my strength, that I should hold up? And what is mine end that I should deal patiently? It is necessary to bear in mind, that the 'strength' of the righteous is of one sort, and the strength of the reprobate of another. For the strength of the righteous is to subdue the flesh, to thwart our own wills, to annihi…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
11For what is my strength, that I continue? What is my time, that my soul endures?
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In context
9Let the Lord begin and wound me, But let him not utterly destroy me.
10Let the grave be my city, upon the walls of which I have leaped: I will not shrink from it; For I have not denied the holy words of my God.
— Job 6:11 —
12Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?
13Or have I not trusted in him? But help is far from me.