Job 17:11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
In Context
10But as for you all, do all of you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
Cross References
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 17:1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Proverbs 16:9A man's heart devises his way: but the LORD directs his steps.
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you go.
Isaiah 38:10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
Romans 1:13Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let until now,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
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 →