My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.
Parallel translations
- WEB My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
- KJV My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
- NKJV My days are past, My purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.
- NASB “My days are past, my plans are torn apart, The wishes of my heart.
- NLT My days are over. My hopes have disappeared. My heart’s desires are broken.
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Quick answer
Job's days are past and his plans and heart's desires are shattered. His hopes for the future have collapsed.
Overview
Job laments that his life is spent and the purposes and longings of his heart are broken off. He sees no earthly future remaining to him. This is the language of a man whose worldly hopes are gone, driving him to seek a hope that outlasts this life, the very hope the gospel provides beyond the grave.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- Isa 38:10I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”
- Prov 16:9A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
- Lam 3:37Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
- 2 Cor 1:15–17Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.
- Jas 4:13–15Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”
- Isa 8:10Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”
- Eccl 9:10Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
- Prov 19:21Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.
- Job 9:25–26My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
- Rom 1:13I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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