EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 17:11
11I will not live for many more days. I will never do the things that I wanted to do.
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
9Righteous people continue to do things that are right. People who do good things become stronger. 10But you, my friends, come here! Try again to help me, all of you! I will not find a wise man among you. I will not live for many more days. I will never do the things that I wanted to do. 12My friends say, “It is day”, when it is still night. They do not know the difference between light and dark. 13The only home that I hope to go to is my grave. I will lie down to sleep there in the dark.
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יָמַ֣י עָ֭בְרוּ זִמֹּתַ֣י נִתְּק֑וּ מ֖וֹרָשֵׁ֣י לְבָבִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 17:11
- Job 7:6My life is passing very fast. Each day passes too quickly to see it! The days of my life will finish, and I cannot hope for anything to get better.
- Job 9:25The days of my life are passing very quickly, like a fast runner. None of my days makes me happy.
- Isaiah 38:10I thought that I might die in the middle of my life. I thought that I would go into the deep hole of death, before I had lived all the years of my life.
- Proverbs 16:9People make plans for what they will do, but it is the Lord who leads them in the right way.
- Proverbs 19:21You may have lots of ideas about what you want to do. But it is the Lord's plans that are important.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10Use all your strength to do the work that you are doing. One day you will die and you will go into your grave. Then you will not have any work, or ideas, or knowledge or wisdom. So do your work well while you are alive.
- Isaiah 8:10Decide how you will fight the battle, but your plans will fail! What you decide to do will never happen. God is with us!
- Lamentations 3:37The Lord causes things to happen. Nobody can cause things to happen without him.
- Romans 1:13My Christian friends, I want you to know that I have tried often to visit you. But until now, something has always stopped me. I want to help you to serve God well, in the way that I have already helped other Gentiles.
- 2 Corinthians 1:15So, because I was sure that you trusted me, I wanted to visit you twice. Then I could bring God's help to you twice. I decided to visit you first on my way to Macedonia. Then I would visit you again on my way back from Macedonia. After that, you could help to send me on my journey to Judea.
- James 4:13Some of you say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to a certain city. We will stay there for a year. We will buy and sell things, and we will become rich.’ If you say things like that, listen to me.
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
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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
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