Job 17:11
My days have passed by, || My plans have been broken off, || The possessions of my heart!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
In Context
10But please return and come in, all of you, || And I do not find a wise man among you.
12They appoint night for day, || Light [is] near because of darkness.
Cross References
Job 7:6My days swifter than a loom, || And they are consumed without hope.
Job 17:1“My spirit has been destroyed, || My days extinguished—graves [are] for me.
Proverbs 16:9The heart of man devises his way, || And YHWH establishes his step.
Ecclesiastes 9:10All that your hand finds to do, with your power do, for there is no work, and plan, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol to where you are going.
Isaiah 38:10“I said in the cutting off of my days, || I go to the gates of Sheol, || I have numbered the remnant of my years.
Romans 1:13And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, that many times I purposed to come to you—and was hindered until the present time—that some fruit I might have also among you, even as also among the other nations.
Matthew Henry on Job 17:11-16
Job Reproves His Three Friends; Vanity of Worldly Expectations. ( b. c. 1520.) 10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. 12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. 13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. 14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. 15 And where is now… Read the whole commentary →