Job 17:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

Job 17:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Isaiah 38:10
I 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.
Proverbs 16:9
A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
2 Corinthians 1:15-17
And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; …
Lamentations 3:37
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-16)

Job’s friends had pretended to comfort him with the hopes of his return to a prosperous estate again; now he here shows, I. That it was their folly to talk so (Job 17:10): “ Return, and come now, be convinced that you are in an error, and let me persuade you to be of my mind; for I cannot find one wise man among you, that knows how to explain the difficulties of God’s providence or how to apply th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. 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.