God’s Word Translation
Job 17:11
11My days are passing by. My plans are broken. My dreams ⌞are shattered⌟.
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, the righteous person clings to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger. 10“But now, all of you, come and try again! I won’t find one wise man among you. My days are passing by. My plans are broken. My dreams ⌞are shattered⌟. 12You say that night is day. Light has nearly become darkness. 13If I look for the grave as my home and make my bed in the darkness,
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יָמַ֣י עָ֭בְרוּ זִמֹּתַ֣י נִתְּק֑וּ מ֖וֹרָשֵׁ֣י לְבָבִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 17:11
- Job 7:6My days go swifter than a weaver’s shuttle. They are spent without hope.
- Job 9:25“My days go by more quickly than a runner. They sprint away. They don’t see anything good.
- Isaiah 38:10I thought that in the prime of my life I would go down to the gates of Sheol and be robbed of the rest of my life.
- Proverbs 16:9A person may plan his own journey, but the Lord directs his steps.
- Proverbs 19:21Many plans are in the human heart, but the advice of the Lord will endure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever presents itself for you to do, do it with ⌞all⌟ your might, because there is no work, planning, knowledge, or skill in the grave where you’re going.
- Isaiah 8:10Make plans for battle, but they will never succeed. Give orders, but they won’t be carried out, because God is with us!
- Lamentations 3:37Who was it who spoke and it came into being? It was the Lord who gave the order.
- Romans 1:13I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that I often planned to visit you. However, until now I have been kept from doing so. What I want is to enjoy some of the results of working among you as I have also enjoyed the results of working among the rest of the nations.
- 2 Corinthians 1:15Confident of this, I had previously wanted to visit you so that you could benefit twice.
- James 4:13Pay attention to this! You’re saying, “Today or tomorrow we will go into some city, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money.”
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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