Job 6:8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 “O that I might have my request
and that God would grant my desire,(A)
Psalm 119:81
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
81 My soul languishes for your salvation;
I hope in your word.(A)
Job 6:11-13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 What is my strength, that I should wait?
And what is my end, that I should be patient?(A)
12 Is my strength the strength of stones,
or is my flesh bronze?
13 In truth I have no help in me,
and any resource is driven from me.(B)
Job 17:14-16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’(A)
15 where then is my hope?
Who will see my hope?(B)
16 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol?
Shall we descend together into the dust?”(C)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.