11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.
My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good. They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.
A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.
Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.
Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?
And being certain of this, it was my purpose to come to you before, so that you might have a second grace; And by way of Corinth to go into Macedonia, and from there to come back again to you, so that you might send me on my way to Judaea. If then I had such a purpose, did I seem to be changing suddenly? or am I guided in my purposes by the flesh, saying, Yes, today, and, No, tomorrow?
How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth: When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone. But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.
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Commentary on Job 17 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 17
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His friends becoming strange to him, which greatly grieved him, he makes death and the grave familiar to him, which yielded him some comfort.
Job 17:1-9
Job's discourse is here somewhat broken and interrupted, and he passes suddenly from one thing to another, as is usual with men in trouble; but we may reduce what is here said to three heads:-
Job 17:10-16
Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hopes of his return to a prosperous estate again; now he here shows,