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My days are past, my plans are broken off, As are the thoughts of my heart.
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The Grief of Broken Dreams
Job expresses profound grief over his life being cut short. Commentators explain that his "purposes" and "thoughts of his heart" refer to all his cherished plans, ambitions, and hopes for his family, work, and faith. His lament highlights the universal human pain of seeing one's dreams and life's work suddenly arrested by suffering and the prospect of death.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 li…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
My days are past Or "passed away", or "passed over" F23 ; not that they passed over the time fixed and ap…
Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hope of his return to a prosperous estate; here he shows that those who draw their comforts fro…
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13th Century
Catholic
After refuting Eliphaz's opinion, Job now gathers his previous points to demonstrate his thesis. First, he gets their attention by saying, "Therefo…
