Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 17:11
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 children.
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 children.
Verse Job 17:11. _MY DAYS ARE PAST_] Job seems to relapse here into his former state of gloom. These _transitions_ are very frequent in this poem; and they strongly mark the struggle of piety and resi...
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 PURPOSES A...
CHAPTER S 16-17 JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ _ 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1)_ 2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6) 3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15) 4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pit...
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 seems to be...
Final repudiation by Job of the false hopes of recovery which the friends held out to him. He knows better, _his_hope is in the grave. Turning with a last word to his friends Job bids them renew as o...
Very different from their delusive anticipations was the truth in regard to Job's condition. His days were past, and his life with all its cherished purposes cut off. The _thoughts_of his heart is lit...
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....
4. Yet his condition is such that his hope will soon go with him to the grave. (Job 17:1-16) TEXT 17:1-16 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is _ready_ for me. 2 Surely there are...
_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 threads of th...
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 pre...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 17 JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...
Job accused his friends. They said that his life would get better (Job 11:15-19). But Job’s troubles were real troubles....
יָמַ֣י עָ֭בְרוּ זִמֹּתַ֣י נִתְּק֑וּ מֹ֖ורָשֵׁ֣י לְבָבִֽי׃...
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1; Job 17:1 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying term...
“THE BARS OF SHEOL” Job 17:1 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks that God would...
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 unutterable...
_Thoughts, or fine projects of living happy a long time. (Calmet)_...
(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:...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
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 the co...
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, since...
_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 wh...
Job's Hopelessness in his Affliction...
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, E...
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...
THE THOUGHTS: _ Heb._ the possessions...
Here is another description of death. He feels that much of his life was already over and that many of his plans and goals were unfulfilled. This is typical of people who feel that they no longer have...
10-16 Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hope of his return to a prosperous estate; he here shows that those do not go wisely about the work of comforting the afflicted, who fetch th...
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, to wi...
Job 17:11 days H3117 past H5674 (H8804) purposes H2154 off H5423 (H8738) thoughts H4180 heart H3824 My day
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He longs for death. CHARACTERS: Job. CONCLUSION: The believer should recognize that wherever he goes there is but a step between him and the grave and should always...
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 weeps...
_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 us...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 17:10 In both lines of v. Job 17:12, Job appears to refer to the viewpoint of his friends. They have said that if Job would simply repent, God will restore him and turn his...
_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, as a l...
EXPOSITION JOB 17:1 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1. It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment by his friends, and...
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation? Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who...
2 Corinthians 1:15; Ecclesiastes 9:10; Isaiah 38:10; Isaiah 8:10;...