My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Parallel translations
- WEB My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
- BSB My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires 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, and are spent without hope.
- Isa 38:10I 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.
- Prov 16:9A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
- Lam 3:37Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
- 2 Cor 1:15–17And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
- Jas 4:13–15Go 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:
- Isa 8:10Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
- Eccl 9:10Whatsoever 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.
- Prov 19:21There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
- Job 9:25–26Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
- Rom 1:13Now 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.
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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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