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
• New King James Version (NKJV)My days are past, My purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.
• New Living Translation (NLT)My days are over. My hopes have disappeared. My heart’s desires are broken.

Context of Job 17:11

9Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger. 10But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you. My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart. 12They make night into day: 'The light,' they say, 'is near to the darkness.' 13If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in 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 come to their end without hope.
• Job 9:25"My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.
• Isaiah 38:10I said, In the middle of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.
• Proverbs 16:9The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
• Proverbs 19:21Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
• Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
• Isaiah 8:10Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.
• Lamentations 3:37Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?
• Romans 1:13I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
• 2 Corinthians 1:15Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a second experience of grace.
• James 4:13Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade 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