Job 17:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:6 : 6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good. 26 They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.
  • Prov 16:9 : 9 A man may make designs for his way, but the Lord is the guide of his steps.
  • Prov 19:21 : 21 A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
  • Isa 8:10 : 10 Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.
  • Isa 38:10 : 10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.
  • Lam 3:37 : 37 Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?
  • Rom 1:13 : 13 You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.
  • 2 Cor 1:15-17 : 15 And being certain of this, it was my purpose to come to you before, so that you might have a second grace; 16 And by way of Corinth to go into Macedonia, and from there to come back again to you, so that you might send me on my way to Judaea. 17 If then I had such a purpose, did I seem to be changing suddenly? or am I guided in my purposes by the flesh, saying, Yes, today, and, No, tomorrow?
  • Jas 4:13-15 : 13 How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth: 14 When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone. 15 But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.

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    15Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

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