My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hopes of his return to a prosperous estate again; now he here shows,
I. That it was their folly to talk so (Job 17:10): "Return, and come now, be…
Cambridge Bible
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 thoughtsof his heart is lit.…
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