New King James Version
Job 17:11
11My days are past, My purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.
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 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 will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger. 10“But please, come back again, all of you, For I shall not find one 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 is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness. 13If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make my bed in the darkness,
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יָמַ֣י עָ֭בְרוּ זִמֹּתַ֣י נִתְּק֑וּ מ֖וֹרָשֵׁ֣י לְבָבִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 17:11
- Job 7:6“My 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 flee away, they see no good.
- Isaiah 38:10I said, “In the prime of my life I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the remainder of my years.”
- Proverbs 16:9A man’s heart plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps.
- Proverbs 19:21There are many plans in a man’s heart, Nevertheless the Lord’s counsel—that will stand.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.
- Isaiah 8:10Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; Speak the word, but it will not stand, For God is with us.”
- Lamentations 3:37Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass, When the Lord has not commanded it?
- Romans 1:13Now I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that I often planned to come to you (but was hindered until now), that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the other Gentiles.
- 2 Corinthians 1:15And in this confidence I intended to come to you before, that you might have a second benefit—
- James 4:13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, 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
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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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