Job 17:11

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Job 17:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible

9 Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

10 But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.

11 My days have passed; my plans are broken off— even the desires of my heart.

12 They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.

13 If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

Job 9:25

My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

Job 9:26

They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

Isaiah 38:10

I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”

Proverbs 16:9

A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.

Proverbs 19:21

Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

Isaiah 8:10

Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”

Lamentations 3:37

Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?

Romans 1:13

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

2 Corinthians 1:15

Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.

2 Corinthians 1:16

I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to return to you from Macedonia, and then to have you help me on my way to Judea.

2 Corinthians 1:17

When I planned this, did I do it carelessly? Or do I make my plans by human standards, so as to say “Yes, yes” when I really mean “No, no”?

James 4:13

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”

James 4:14

You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

James 4:15

Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”