Job 17:11

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:6 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 ¶ Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey.
  • Prov 16:9 : 9 ¶ A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
  • Prov 19:21 : 21 ¶ [There are] many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for [there is] no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
  • Isa 8:10 : 10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God [is] with us.
  • Isa 38:10 : 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.
  • Lam 3:37 : 37 ¶ Who [is] he [that] saith, and it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord commandeth [it] not?
  • Rom 1:13 : 13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
  • 2 Cor 1:15-17 : 15 ¶ And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; 16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea. 17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
  • Jas 4:13-15 : 13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15 For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 17:12-13
    2 verses
    79%

    12They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.

    13If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

  • 1¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.

  • 10¶ But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.

  • Job 10:20-21
    2 verses
    77%

    20[Are] not my days few? cease [then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

    21Before I go [whence] I shall not return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

  • Job 7:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

    7¶ O remember that my life [is] wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

  • Isa 38:10-13
    4 verses
    76%

    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.

    11I said, I shall not see the LORD, [even] the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

    12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.

    13I reckoned till morning, [that], as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • 10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • 10My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

  • 4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

  • 25¶ Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

  • 11My days [are] like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

  • 11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

  • 23¶ He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

  • 7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow.

  • 16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

  • 16I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.

  • Lam 3:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

    18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

  • 10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

  • 12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

  • 3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

  • 13[Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

  • 7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

  • 20My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they [are] not: [there is] none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

  • 47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

  • 20Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

  • Ps 39:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].

    5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.

  • 11What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine end, that I should prolong my life?

  • 21¶ Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

  • 22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.

  • 8¶ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

  • 18[When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.

  • 17For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me.

  • 5I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

  • 4Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.

  • 2Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished?

  • 17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.

  • 4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

  • 9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

  • 16When I thought to know this, it [was] too painful for me;

  • 15[That which is] crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

  • 15And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

  • 16As for me, I have not hastened from [being] a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was [right] before thee.