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

9The righteous keep moving forward, and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger. 10“As for all of you, come back with a better argument, though I still won’t find a wise man among you. My days are over. My hopes have disappeared. My heart’s desires are broken. 12These men say that night is day; they claim that the darkness is light. 13What if I go to the grave and 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 7:6“My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle. They end without hope.
• Job 9:25“My life passes more swiftly than a runner. It flees away without a glimpse of happiness.
• Isaiah 38:10I said, “In the prime of my life, must I now enter the place of the dead? Am I to be robbed of the rest of my years?”
• Proverbs 16:9We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps.
• Proverbs 19:21You can make many plans, but the Lord’s purpose will prevail.
• Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
• Isaiah 8:10Call your councils of war, but they will be worthless. Develop your strategies, but they will not succeed. For God is with us!”
• Lamentations 3:37Who can command things to happen without the Lord’s permission?
• Romans 1:13I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters, that I planned many times to visit you, but I was prevented until now. I want to work among you and see spiritual fruit, just as I have seen among other Gentiles.
• 2 Corinthians 1:15Since I was so sure of your understanding and trust, I wanted to give you a double blessing by visiting you twice—
• James 4:13Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there 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