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

9But the righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger. 10“But turn, all of you, come now! I will not find a wise man among you. My days have passed, my plans are torn apart. Yet the desires of my heart 12turn night into day; in the face of darkness light is near. 13If I hope for Sheol as my home, 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 fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle and come to an end without hope.
• Job 9:25“My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away without seeing goodness.
• Isaiah 38:10I said: “In the prime of my life, I am to enter the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the rest of my years.”
• Proverbs 16:9The heart of man plans his course, but Adonai directs his steps.
• Proverbs 19:21Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but the counsel of Adonai will stand.
• Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever your hand finds to do, do with all your strength, for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, where you are going.
• Isaiah 8:10Take counsel together, but it will amount to nothing. Speak a word, but it will not stand. For God is with us!
• Lamentations 3:37Who speaks and it comes to pass unless the Lord has decreed it?
• Romans 1:13I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that many times I planned to come to you (though I was prevented until now)—so I might have some fruit among you also, just as I have among the rest of the nations.
• 2 Corinthians 1:15Because of this confidence, I was planning to come to you first, so 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 town and spend a year there and engage in business 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