Job 17:11 Cross References - ISV

¹¹ My days are passed; my plans have been shattered; along with my heart’s desires.

⁶ My days pass as swiftly as a hand-loom; they come to their conclusion without hope.

²⁵ Job Argues that God Won’t Acquit Him“My days pass faster than a runner; but they pass quickly without seeing anything good. ²⁶ They pass by like a ship made of reeds, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

⁹ A person plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps.

²¹ Many plans occupy the mind of a man, but the LORD’s purposes will prevail.

¹⁰ Whatever the activity in which you engage, do it with all your ability, because there is no work, no planning, no learning, and no wisdom in the next world where you’re going.

¹⁰ Take counsel together, but it will all be for nothing; go ahead and talk, but it will all be for nothing, for God is with us.”

¹⁰ I said, “Must I leave in the prime of my life? Must I be consigned to the control of Sheol? Bitter are my years!”

³⁷ Who can command, and it happens, without the Lord having ordered it?

¹³ I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now), so that I might reap a harvest among you, just as I have among the rest of the gentiles.

¹⁵ Why Paul’s Visit Was PostponedBecause I was confident, I planned to come to you first so you might receive a double blessing. ¹⁶ I planned to leave you in order to go to Macedonia, and then come back to you from Macedonia, and let you send me on to Judea.
¹⁷ When I planned this, I did not do it lightly, did I? Are my plans so fickle that I can say “Yes” and “No” at the same time?

¹³ Do Not Boast about Future PlansNow listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money.” ¹⁴ You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. ¹⁵ Instead you should say, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live—and do this or that.”