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

9Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger. 10But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you. My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart. 12They change the night into day: The light, say they, is near unto the darkness. 13If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

Job 17:11 word by word

יָמַ֣י עָ֭בְרוּ זִמֹּתַ֣י נִתְּק֑וּ מ֖וֹרָשֵׁ֣י לְבָבִֽי׃Read the interlinear

• daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• 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 9:25Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good.
• Isaiah 38:10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
• Proverbs 16:9A man’s heart deviseth his way; But Jehovah directeth his steps.
• Proverbs 19:21There are many devices in a man’s heart; But the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand.
• Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.
• Isaiah 8:10Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
• Lamentations 3:37Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
• Romans 1:13And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the Gentiles.
• 2 Corinthians 1:15And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;
• James 4:13Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:

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