“ My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughtsf of my heart. ”
My 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 pu...
Job 16:22 to Job 17:16 . Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must now die. Job 17:2 is obscure; the general sense...
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. My days are past - Job seems to relapse here into his former state of gloom. These transitions are very frequent in this...
The thoughts of my heart, &c.— The gnawings of my heart ( Job 17:12 .) causeth it to be night instead of day; the light is short in comparison of darkness. Heath.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. Only do not vainly speak of the restoration of health to me; for "my days are past." Broken off - as the thread...
Job's Fourth Speech (concluded) 1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises of restoration in the...
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again i...
“The Bars of Sheol” Job 17:1-16 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1-9 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks t...
Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterabl...
(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:...
My days are past ,.... Or "passed away", or "passed over" w; not that they passed over the time fixed and appointed by God, for there is no passing the bound settled by him, Job 14:5 ; but either t...
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart. Ver. 11. My days are past ] q.d. It is past time of day for me to hope for a return of a prosperous condition, sinc...
My days are past The days of my life. I am a dying man, and therefore the hopes you give me of the bettering of my condition are vain. My purposes are broken off Or the designs and expectations w...
Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...
Job Reproves His Three Friends; Vanity of Worldly Expectations. B. C. 1520. 10 But as...
My days; the days of my life. I am a lost and dying man, and therefore the hopes you give me of the bettering of my condition are vain and groundless. My purposes; or, my designs , or thoughts,...
CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Bemoans his dying condition ( Job 17:1 ). “My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished,...
Job 17:1 . My breath is corrupt. Schultens reads, corruptus est spiritus meus: “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye we...
My purposes are broken off. Broken purposes What mental anguish is concentrated in these few words! They raise the sufferings of Job from one of mere physical pain to one of mental despair: Let...
EXPOSITION Job 17:1-18 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1-18 . It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment b...
My days are past, he felt that he was near the end, and he sank back into his former hopeless complaint, my purposes are broken off, the plans which he had made for his life were cut off, destroyed...
2 Corinthians 1:15-17 ; Ecclesiastes 9:10 ; Isaiah 38:10 ; Isaiah 8:10 ; James 4:13-15 ; Job 7:6 ; Job 9:25 ; Job 9:26 ; Lamentations 3:37 ; Proverbs 16:9 ; Proverbs 19:21 ; Romans 1:13
My days — The days of my life. I am a dying man, and therefore the hopes you give me of the bettering of my condition, are vain. Purposes — Which I had in my prosperous days, concerning myself and...