Job 17:11

Job 17:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
• New International Version (NIV)My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heart
• English Standard Version (ESV)My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
• New King James Version (NKJV)My days are past, My purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

Context of Job 17:11

9Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his ways, And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger. 10But as for all of you, come back again, Even though I do not find a wise man among you. My days are past, my purposes and plans are frustrated and torn apart; The wishes of my heart [are broken]. 12These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day; ‘The light is near,’ they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth]. 13But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home, If I make my bed in the darkness,

Job 17:11 word by word

יָמַ֣י עָ֭בְרוּ זִמֹּתַ֣י נִתְּק֑וּ מ֖וֹרָשֵׁ֣י לְבָבִֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• My daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• are pastעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674
• my purposesזִמָּהzimmâh zammâh · wickednessH2154
• are broken offנָתַקnâthaq · to tearH5423
• the thoughtsמוֹרָשׁmôrâsh · possessionH4180
• of my heartלֵבָבlêbâb · heartH3824

Cross-references for Job 17:11

• Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope.
• Job 9:25“Now my days are swifter than a runner; They vanish, they see no good.
• Isaiah 38:10I said, “In mid-life I am to go through the gates of Sheol (the place of the dead), I am to be summoned, deprived of the remainder of my years.”
• Proverbs 16:9A man’s mind plans his way [as he journeys through life], But the Lord directs his steps and establishes them.
• Proverbs 19:21Many plans are in a man’s mind, But it is the Lord’s purpose for him that will stand (be carried out).
• Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) where you are going.
• Isaiah 8:10Take counsel together [against Judah], but it will come to nothing; Speak the word, but it will not stand, For God is with us (Immanuel).”
• Lamentations 3:37Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, Unless the Lord has authorized and commanded it?
• Romans 1:13I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that many times I have planned to come to you, (and have been prevented so far) so that I may have some fruit [of my labors] among you, even as I have among the rest of the Gentiles.
• 2 Corinthians 1:15It was with this confidence that I planned at first to visit you, so that you might receive twice a token of grace;
• James 4:13Come now [and pay attention to this], you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and carry on our business and make a profit.”

Commentaries on Job 17:11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11My days are past - Job seems to relapse here into his former state of gloom. These transitions are very frequent in this poem; and they strongly mark the struggle of piety and resignation with continued affliction, violent temptation, and gloomy providences. The thoughts of my heart - All my purposes are interrupted; and all my schemes and plans, in relation to myself and family, are torn asunder, destroyed, and dissipated.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11My days are past - “I am about to die.” Job relapses again into sadness - as he often does. A sense of his miserable condition comes over him like a cloud, and he feels that he must die. My purposes are broken off - All my plans fail, and my schemes of life come to an end. No matter what they could say now, it was all over with him, and he must die; compare Isaiah 38:12: “My habitation is taken away, and is removed from me Like a shepherd‘s tent; My life…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-16Verses 10-16 Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hope of his return to a prosperous estate; he here shows that those do not go wisely about the work of comforting the afflicted, who fetch their comforts from the possibility of recovery in this world. It is our wisdom to comfort ourselves, and others, in distress, with that which will not fail; the promise of God, his love and grace, and a well-grounded hope of eternal life. See how Job…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10-16Job no longer trusted his friends and thought he would die without hope (6:15–21; 13:4–5; 16:2–3; compare 12:2).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. Only do not vainly speak of the restoration of health to me; for "my days are past." broken off--as the threads of the web cut off from the loom (Is 38:12). thoughts--literally, "possessions," that is, all the feelings and fair hopes which my heart once nourished. These belong to the heart, as "purposes" to the understanding; the two together here describe the entire inner man.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 17:11

• Afflictions and Adversities

In the dictionaries

• Extinct
• Hold

Commentaries on Job 17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings