Job 17:11
My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
In Context
10Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.
12Night for day they appoint, Light [is] near because of darkness.
Cross References
Job 7:6My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
Job 17:1My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished — graves [are] for me.
Proverbs 16:9The heart of man deviseth his way, And Jehovah establisheth his step.
Ecclesiastes 9:10All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.
Isaiah 38:10'I — I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.
Romans 1:13And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that many times I did purpose to come unto you — and was hindered till 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 →