My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
My days are past, purposes broken off, and inward thoughts shattered belongs to the dispute between Job and his three friends over the afflictions that had fallen upon him. That dispute is the book's record of contending explanations of human suffering, in which claims true in general about hardship and divine correction were wrongly forced upon Job's particular case. The utterance is Job's cry of despair that his lifetime is almost spent, his designs have collapsed, and the cherished aims held in his heart have been dashed and reduced to nothing. His sense that his days have run out and his plans and inner purposes lie in ruins lays bare how complete his anguish had become.
The wreck of future hope and purpose set forth here measures the depth of his adversity, showing the bitter loss that can overtake even the faithful. In that setting of ended days and severed plans, the saying bears witness that the dead rest in the grave until the day of resurrection and promotion. Taken with the verses around it, it portrays the dead as waiting for their appointed change.
My days are past, purposes broken off, and inward thoughts shattered belongs to the dispute between Job and his three friends over the afflictions that had fallen upon him. That dispute is the book's record of contending explanations of human suffering, in which claims true in general about hardship and divine correction were wrongly forced upon Job's particular case. The utterance is Job's cry of despair that his lifetime is almost spent, his designs have collapsed, and the cherished aims held in his heart have been dashed and reduced to nothing. His sense that his days have run out and his plans and inner purposes lie in ruins lays bare how complete his anguish had become.
The wreck of future hope and purpose set forth here measures the depth of his adversity, showing the bitter loss that can overtake even the faithful. In that setting of ended days and severed plans, the saying bears witness that the dead rest in the grave until the day of resurrection and promotion. Taken with the verses around it, it portrays the dead as waiting for their appointed change.